Talk:drunk as a lord

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drunk as a lord

--Connel MacKenzie 18:17, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

• Hmmm the first 3 pages of google books hits are dictinaries but there must be some real uses in there somewhere. [1] Kappa 19:16, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

• 1997 Max Crawford Lords of the Plain : A Novel, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 183

"Good many of them drunk as lords," said DuBois of the established merriment of the guests.

• 2001 Ryotaro Shiba and Eileen Kato Drunk as a Lord: Samurai Stories, Kodansha International, →ISBN
• 2006 Edward Marston The Princess of Denmark: An Elizabethan Theater Mystery Featuring Nicholas Bracewell, St. Martin's Minotaur, →ISBN, page 17

"How he managed to light it, God knows, for he was as drunk as a lord. As soon as his head touched the pillow, he was asleep."

Courtesy of Amazon.com. __meco 20:47, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I've heard this dozens of times, although I always thought it was UK regional --Dmol 21:07, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Definitely a common idiom in the UK. SemperBlotto 21:22, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

A few more, for good measure (including an old one) :

• 1909: Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  He gave her a good hidin' an' went to th' Blue Lion an' got as drunk as a lord.

• 2004: Fyofor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead

  Then vodka was brought out; the hero of the day would get drunk as a lord and always walked all over the prison, reeling and staggering, trying to show to everyone that he was drunk, that he was “jolly” and so deserving of general respect. Everywhere among the Russian people a certain sympathy is felt for a drunken man; in prison he was positively treated with respect.

The quotations also indicate that as drunk as a lord should redirect as an alternative form (or this should be moved thither). — Beobach972 21:32, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Citations go in the entry Cynewulf 21:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

RFVpassed. — Beobach972 21:12, 17 June 2007 (UTC)