1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: He is as [...] drunk as a piper [Ibid.] 227: He may also, comparatively, be as drunk as [...] a fiddler, a Gosport fiddler or, a fiddler’s bitch, the devil, hell, or blazes, drunk as a wheelbarrow, the drum of a wheelbarrow, a fly, a mouse, a rat, a fish, or a tapster, drunk as a besom, a muck, a porter, or a beggar, drunk as a nurse at a christening.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler [...] is up a tree.at up a tree, phr.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 227: He may also, comparatively, be as drunk as [...] a rat.at drunk as a rat, adj.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler may further be [...] all key-hole.at all keyhole, n.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 229: Of course, there is small beer or [...] arms and legs.at arms and legs, n.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler may be [...] all mops and brooms.at mops and brooms, adj.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 228: Australian slang recognises beer in she-oak, shearer’s joy and in artesian.at artesian, n.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: He is as [...] drunk as David’s sow.at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler [...] has a guest in the attic.at have a guest in the attic (v.) under attic, n.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 229: Strong ale is variously called [...] nappy, stingo, barley-wine.at barley, n.1
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 230: Brandy is your nectar and you shout for [...] O-be-joyful. [note] Particularly a good brandy. A brandy drinker may be known as an O-be-joyfuller or O-be-joyful merchant.at o-be-joyful, n.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 244: A sot, a barrel [...] in America, a beer-jerker.at beer-jerker (n.) under beer, n.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 227: He has been on the skyte, bend, loose, soak.at on a bend under bend, n.2
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 226: [...] in difficulty, in liquor, in the altitudes, dogged, mashed, off, off his nut or, out of funds, a bit on.at have a bit on (v.) under bit, n.1
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 225: Our tippler [...] has been bit by a barnmouse.at bit by a barn-mouse under bit by..., phr.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 246: Weak tipple, swish-swash, fit only for drinking at a cat-, hen-, or bitch-party.at bitch party (n.) under bitch, n.1
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 247: D.T.s., Delirium tremens, or [...] black dog.at black dog, n.2
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 230: Black-strap is, in America, gin mixed with molasses.at black strap (n.) under black, adj.
1933 ‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 248: Grog-blossoms, Pimples achieved by furious drinking.at grog blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2