drunk as Chloe
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drunk as Chloe
Where it comes from
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.
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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.
Similar: 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
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