stewed to the gills

old-fashioned slang Extremely drunk. Whenever she goes for a night out with her friends, she always comes back stewed to the gills. Good luck explaining that to him. You can't talk a lick of sense to Barry when he's stewed to the gills like that.

stewed to the gills

and stewed to the ears

mod. alcohol intoxicated. When I get stewed to the gills, I usually fall asleep, right then and there. Here’s old Charlie—stewed to the ears, as always.

stewed to the gills

Extremely drunk. The noun gills here has nothing to do with the breathing organs of fish, but rather was slang for a stand-up collar. Consequently to the gills came to mean “up to one’s neck” or “completely,” and in the early 1900s stewed, for soaked in liquor, was added.

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释义	stewed to the gills stewed to the gills old-fashioned slang Extremely drunk. Whenever she goes for a night out with her friends, she always comes back stewed to the gills. Good luck explaining that to him. You can't talk a lick of sense to Barry when he's stewed to the gills like that. See also: gill, stewed Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. stewed to the gills and stewed to the ears mod. alcohol intoxicated. When I get stewed to the gills, I usually fall asleep, right then and there. Here’s old Charlie—stewed to the ears, as always. See also: gill, stewed McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions stewed to the gills Extremely drunk. The noun gills here has nothing to do with the breathing organs of fish, but rather was slang for a stand-up collar. Consequently to the gills came to mean “up to one’s neck” or “completely,” and in the early 1900s stewed, for soaked in liquor, was added. See also: gill, stewed The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: balmy appear to a change of heart a mystery to (one) bleed for a plain Jane a turn of phrase able to do able to do it a shoulder to cry on References in periodicals archive I was cooking said bird when she and two others arrived, already stewed to the gills. They took out my bird and threw it over the backyard fence. Invitation to black tie gala excludes wife
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