drunk as Chloe

== English == === Etymology === Possibly a reference to the Chloe mentioned in the poetry of Matthew Prior. Australian vernacular usage (reported by Partridge and others) is influenced by, and often thought to refer to, the well-known nude painting Chloé, which was hung briefly (in 1883) at the National Gallery of Victoria, and later (from 1908) at the Young and Jacksons hotel, Melbourne. === Pronunciation === === Adjective === drunk as Chloe (not comparable) (UK, Australia, colloquial, simile) Very drunk. 1823, Drink, entry in Jon Badcock, Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, or Bon-Ton, page 71, Drunk as Chloe; she must have been an uproarious lass. ==== Synonyms ==== drunk as a cunt, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as a fiddler's bitch, drunk as a lord, drunk as a piper, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, full as a goog, pissed as a fart, pissed as a newt, tight as a tick; see also Thesaurus:drunk === References ===