Meaning of tired and emotional | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Drunk.
   British, euphemistic, humorous, idiomatic
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tired, emotional.

Examples

“In 2008, after what you imagine was a tired and emotional dinner, the novelist Michel Houellebecq and the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy determined to start writing to each other about the things that kept them awake at nights.”

“There's nothing like a singalong with tired and emotional Lib Dems [headline]”

“Andy Murray was tired and emotional – in the old fashioned sense – after becoming the first player in the history of tennis at the Olympics to win back-to-back gold medals in Rio on Sunday night.”

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