as full as a tick

== English == === Pronunciation === === Adjective === full as a tick (simile) Engorged with food or drink, especially alcoholic drink. 2001 Sep. 2, Robert Morgan, "Down Home" (book review of Ava's Man by Rick Bragg), New York Times (retrieved 10 Dec 2012): Bragg describes his mother Margaret as a girl eating her first hot dog: it "came wrapped in wax paper, the bun warm and soft, the smell of raw onions, spicy meat and chili filling the car, and she rode the rest of the way full as a tick, mustard on her cheeks." ==== Synonyms ==== full as a goog, full to the gills, stuffed === See also === tight as a tick === References === “full as a tick”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.