Green’s Dictionary of Slang

banged up to the eyes phr.

very drunk.

1900		American Journal of Psychology 11 345: Synonyms for Intoxcation [...] Bacchi plenus, back teeth afloat, bamboozled, banged up to the eyes, battered, beastly [etc.].
[1929		(con. WWI) H. Odum Wings on My Feet 214: Go out try to buy French wines, dam’ vin blank, red gin, rum [...] jes’ anything we could git, if would git alcohol behind eyes].
1937–84		Partridge DSUE (1984) 48/1: mid-C.19-20 ob.
1942		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl.