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Pi$$ed as a fart
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where on earth does that saying come from? Have you ever seen a drunk fart?? :s
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The "drunk as" comparison, is itself a staple of popular speech, and has been ever since one of the first known examples, Chaucer's "drunk as a mouse" of 1386. You also have variations such as "drunk as a skunk" "drunk as a bat" and "drunk as a boiled owl," although "drunk as a wheelbarrow" (1709) has a nice surrealistic ring to it.
Pi$$ed is the most common slang word for drunk in the UK, so it was only natural that the phrase should evolve.
Pi$$ed is the most common slang word for drunk in the UK, so it was only natural that the phrase should evolve.
Click here and a link will take you to a page with some 200 words/phrases meaning 'drunk'. If you study the list, you'll see that hardly any of them is susceptible to rational explanation. Nor is it very likely that an actual source will ever be isolated. 'Drunk as a rat', for instance, is centuries old but why/where/when that became the modern 'rat-bottomed' - except that it isn't 'bottomed', of course - I don't expect we'll ever know! No more will we, I imagine, as regards your own version.