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[US] Knoxville Dly Chron. (TN) 21 Jan. 3/1: He was as drunk as david’s sow. He insisted on singing the ‘Marseillaise’.
at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
[US] Knoxville Dly Chron. (TN) 10 Jan. 1/4: Olympe, ususally called Limpy by the boys, begged and sold matches.
at limpy, n.
[US] Knoxville Dly Chron. (TN) 11 Nov. 1/5: Ven I got home I don’t can tell if I vas a saw-mill or a brass band I vas dvice so drunk as a boiled owl.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[US] Knoxville Dly Chron. (TN) 20 Mar. 1/1: The anxious meeting was well attended [...] manifestly by seekers of religion.
at anxious meeting, n.
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