Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Brahms (and Liszt) adj.

drunk.

1971		Daily Tel. 17 Sept. n.p.: Brahms ’n’ Liszt = inebriated.
1972		Galton & Simpson ‘Man of Letters’ Steptoe and Son [TV script] I was a wee bit Brahms and Liszt.
1979		F. Norman Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 36: A geezer is entitled to get Mozart and Liszt an’ ’ave a giggle nar an’ agin, ain’t ’e?
1988		Tampa Trib. (FL) 10 Apr. 6G/5: If you ball and chalk down the frog and toad after a row with your pot and pan think twice befoire stepping into a pub and getting completely Brahms and Liszt.
1998		C. Fitzpatrick ‘Gower ’98’ on Sussex University Canoe Club 🌐 Well in the rub-a-dub-dub we all got Brahms and Liszt, some more so than others.
1999		G. Seal Lingo 134: The effects of our occasionally over-enthusiastic imbibing show a great variety of invention and colour, including: full; full as a boot; legless; mozart, or brahms and liszt (rhyming slang for pissed).
2002		Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 Brahms and Liszt: pissed (drunk).
2003		B. Dark Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl. 29: It’s my birthday so I can get as Brahms as I want to.
2013		Nat. Post (Toronto) 23 July 20/4: [crossword clue] 15 Cops and Morse, drunk, getting Brahms and Liszt (9).