drunk as a fiddler

drunk as a fiddler

Extremely intoxicated from alcohol. You're drunk as a fiddler, stumbling in here reeking of alcohol! I only meant to stay for one drink, but I wound up getting drunk as a fiddler.
See also: drunk, fiddler
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • fiddler
  • (as) drunk as a skunk
  • (as) drunk as a lord
  • can't hold (one's) drink
  • liquor
  • lush up
  • smash the teapot
  • groggery
  • under the influence of alcohol
  • boozehound
References in classic literature
Then they tucked the old man into a beauti- ful room, which was the spare room, and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion and traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod, and clumb back again and had a good old time; and towards daylight he crawled out again, drunk as a fiddler, and rolled off the porch and broke his left arm in two places, and was most froze to death when somebody found him after sun-up.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn