stone sober

stone sober

Completely sober; not intoxicated to any degree by drugs or alcohol. I'm stone sober, so I'll drive us home. No, I'm not high—I've been stone sober from the day I started working here!
See also: sober, stone
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

stone(–cold) sober

 and cold sober
absolutely sober. I am stone-cold sober, or I will be by morning anyway. I found the secret to waking up cold sober. Don't drink.
See also: sober, stone
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

stone sober

verb
See stone cold sober
See also: sober, stone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be not cut out for something
  • be not (oneself)
  • address (one's) comments to (someone or something)
  • address comments or remarks to
  • address (one's) remarks to (someone or something)
  • be in it for
  • away from it all
  • be more than (something)
  • be more than glad, ready, etc.
  • back off, to
References in periodicals archive
Stone sober, they say, and is he ever, grimacing between a rock and a hard place.
One Week After the Election
"This time he's cold stone sober and I think he'll get a shock" Ronnie Wood's ex-wife Jo on him becoming a father again aged 68.
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I was stone sober! Then it swelled up and now it's all black and blue." (ANI)
Reese Witherspoon hurts her foot
And being stone sober, I was far more agile than he.
Running on empty team Volcom
The problem with the job performance standard is that if Tower was an alcoholic he could have been stone sober during office hours and still had his judgment and temperament somewhat impaired by liquor.
Days of whine and poses; John Tower's lament - and what it misses
He wasn't drunk but he certainly wasn't stone sober, either."
George & Fabio 'push-off'