screwed tight

screwed tight

dated slang Drunk. If you can't make it through a single weekend without getting screwed tight, then you might need some help with your drinking. We had about four bottles of wine during lunch, so we were positively screwed tight by the time we left.
See also: screw, tight
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

screwed tight

verb
See screwed
See also: screw, tight
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hollow legs
  • pifficated
  • nurse a drink
  • sprung
  • mop
  • all mops and brooms
  • pifted
  • funky-drunk
  • screaming drunk
  • blinded
References in classic literature
In all the rooms, the mouldering shutters were fast closed: the bars which held them were screwed tight into the wood; the only light which was admitted, stealing its way through round holes at the top: which made the rooms more gloomy, and filled them with strange shadows.
Finally the breech plug itself has to be screwed tight to seal the breech.
The round end can be screwed tight to prevent link movement.
with the lid screwed tight, and all you could see was a huge eye staring
The frame is ergonomically populated separately before the entire assembly is placed inside the cabinet and screwed tight.
The nails are nailed in and the screws are screwed tight, but something is wrong here!
Two insulators are screwed tight on the electric fence post and I string the polypropylene twine by spooling it out of the two-spool box it comes in from the farm store.
This is an all-in-one fixing that is inserted into the drill hole then screwed tight. They are mainly used for heavy jobs such as fixing timber to the wall.
'Surrendering to the Air': It is true - we often writhe as moths or ants/suffocating in a bottle, imprisoned,/the lid screwed tight: we can see out/but the air we breathe closes in on us.//What we sometimes think we feel/is the pressureless pressure of a vacuum;/what we hear a hissing whoosh,/the air rushing out of our lives.//There's this sad, elemental alienation -/as if powerful birds coursing through/the boundless blue home of all creation/felt they soared against, outside of, and apart//instead of in, on, and with the streaming/currents - though we on land see/the single purity of wing and wind,/the freedom of their surrender//to what is essential, ultimately themselves.
Wood spiral stairs typically have center poles composed of several wood pieces held together by a steel tube that is screwed tight at the top.
It requires placing the lid and sliding it into slots on the canner, placing a two-inch-thick rubber band over that seal, and then a metal band screwed tight over everything in just the right position to get the proper seal.
Cultural web Arte and educational channel La Cinquieme both got budget increases in the 7% region, having seen the financial taps screwed tight shut late in 1996.
The entire machine is then removed and the corporation screwed tight by an ordinary wrench.