dead drunk
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A storm, attempted murders, witches, wizards, invisible spirits, revolutions, characters drinking until they’re dead drunk, an angry monster named Caliban—can you believe it?
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Iago retorts: "Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead drunk," and gains, the speaker explains, easy mastery over the German and the Hollander.
From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Lee, Sidney, Sir
At last I obtained permission to leave the custom-house in my carriage, and I went to the "City of Paris" inn with a customs officer, a real demon and dead drunk into the bargain.
From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth
He told our Mr. Morshed he'd follow him more sang frays, which is French for dead, drunk, or damned.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard
Is the fellow to that to be found in literature, ancient or modern, foreign or domestic, living or dead, drunk or sober?
From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Twain, Mark