Meaning of drunk as Chloe | Babel Free

Definitions

Very drunk.

Australia, UK, colloquial, not-comparable

Examples

“1823, Drink⟳, entry in Jon Badcock, Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring⟳, the Chase⟳, the Pit, or Bon-Ton, page 71, Drunk''' as Chloe; she must have⟳ been an uproarious lass.”

“Sorry to observe⟳ that Seymour had ‘been at his tricks,’ and was as drunk as Chloe ! — as the saying is ; but as to who Chloe was, my reading never informed me.”

“They were all as drunk as Chloe, and I being a little in a sympathetic condition, they took me into their confidence.”

“They passed many merry-makers homeward bound, many of them following a tortuous course, for the Scottish toper gives way first in the legs, the Southron in the other extremity, and thus between them could be constructed a man wholly sober and another as drunk as Chloe.”

“It was a regular thing for many of the clergy to be as drunk as Chloe on Saturday night, get⟳ through their sermon on Sunday morning, and get⟳ drunk and sober again before the evening.”

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