falling-down drunk

falling-down drunk

Severely intoxicated from alcohol, to the point of being unable to stand upright. On his 21st birthday, Jeff's friends took him to every bar in town until he was falling-down drunk.
See also: drunk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

falling down drunk

see under drunk as a lord.
See also: down, drunk, fall
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

falling-down drunk

1. mod. alcohol intoxicated; very drunk. Poor Fred is falling-down drunk and has no way to get home.
2. n. a drunken person who falls down. One more falling-down drunk in this neighborhood will not be anything new.
See also: drunk
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • falling down drunk
  • rolling drunk
  • both sheets in the wind
  • get stupid
  • out of (one's) brain
  • be out of (one's) brain
  • out of (one's) face
  • out of one’s skull
  • out of skull
  • out of your skull
References in periodicals archive
The guy didn't seem to be falling-down drunk, but was clearly belligerent."
All goes awry, however, when her sister gets falling-down drunk. Frustrated and wanting to leave, Sadie agrees to take two young men to the nearby 7-Eleven, where they say they want to pick up beer.
I may not wrap myself in a Union flag and get falling-down drunk during the World Cup, but I know my country.
Remington rated himself as being "20-30" on a scale of 0-100, with 0 being totally sober and 100 being "passed out (or) falling-down drunk," according to the report.
Jostled and caressed by men and women either merely merry, drunk, or falling-down drunk, fleering, sneering masks thrust into his face, bewildered by the noise and laughter and stench, he was glad to be pushed stumbling between two dark houses out of the crush and din and the glare and smoke of the torches.
Mr Wilson's parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit citing reports that Goodman was "falling-down drunk" just 30 minutes before the fatal collision.
I don't binge drink or get falling-down drunk, but do you think I'm an alcoholic?
He was a pipe-smoker who enjoyed getting his generals and associates falling-down drunk on vodka while he quietly nursed one or two glasses of wine, so he could observe what they would say or do when intellectually defenseless.
The line between me being stone-cold sober and falling-down drunk is similar to the setting on my shower between freezing cold and scalding hot ( I've not managed to find either of them yet.
The message that you can get falling-down drunk, injure yourself, forget who you are and still have a place to crash out for the night complete with professional medical care is surely more of an invitation to excessive drinking rather than a deterrent.
I try to stay in control though, I never mix my drinks because I don't want to be photographed coming out of a club falling-down drunk. I wait til I get home for that,' she adds, laughing.
``He was never violent,but it made him so verbally nasty and falling-down drunk. It was only when I was on the point of leaving him that he said,`Ring AA for me'and I told him he had to ring them for himself, which he did.
I never get falling-down drunk, I don`t smoke, I don`t fool around, I`m limp-wristingly opposed to violence and a lifelong aversion to the Grateful Dead and an inability to find Cheech and Chong even remotely funny has always been enough to keep me away from recreational drugs.
The 40-year-old star literally got falling-down drunk in front of amused big-name guests at the exclusive gathering in her honour.
For instance, the martini scene changes almost nightly," he says, referring to a hilarious scene in which the actor is literally falling-down drunk. "If an audience is willing to dance, I will dance with them.