drunk as Chloe

drunk as Chloe
Very drunk.

1823: Drunk as Chloe; she must have been an uproarious lass. — Jon Bee, Slang Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring &c, page 27. Quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, 1985, , ISBN 0-424-00113-6.


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