top-heavy with drink
Adjective

top-heavy with drink

  1. (idiomatic, rare) drunk
    • 1910, Avery N. Beebe, “Enforced Sobriety”, The World To-day, v. 19, p. 1164 ↗:
      smallcaps Imagine yourself about to embark on the New York Limited Express for the eastern metropolis; the train made up of ten Pullman passenger, two baggage and one express cars; with an engineer top-heavy with drink, a conductor braced up to a degree of conviviality, the train-dispatchers along the line overworked and sleepy.
    • 1995, The New Yorker, Dec 11, p. 110 ↗:
      Her sister, Sadie, on the other hand, is top-heavy with drink, drugs, and a serious overdose of eyeshadow. She has hopes of following — or staggering — in the footsteps of her sister.
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