Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Drunk
As drunk as a beggar.
—Anonymous
Drunk as a boiled owl.
—Anonymous
Drunk as a bunghole.
—Anonymous
Drunk as a piper.
—Anonymous
Drunk as a tinker.
—Anonymous
Drunk as a top.
—Anonymous
Drunk as David’s saw.
—Anonymous
Drunk as blazes.
—Anonymous
As drunk as three in a bed.
—Anonymous
Dronken … as a rat.
—Andrew Borde (Boke of Knowledge, 1542)
Drunk as a lord.
—George Colman, the Younger
Drunk as a porter.
—Nathaniel Field
Drougen [drunk] as an ape.
—John Grange
Drunk as fish.
—Ben Jonson
Drunk as Davy’s sow on a frosty night.
—Rudyard Kipling
Drunk like Lot.
—Andrew Marvell
Drunk as a fiddler.
—The Puritan
Drunk as a wheel-barrow.
—Samuel Wesley
Drunk as a beast.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Drunk as a drum.
—Women’s Petition Against Coffee