Idiom
tired and emotional
Meaning
Drunk.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He had too much wine and is now tired and emotional.”
“The party went on until dawn, and by the end, several guests were looking a bit tired and emotional.”
“After the long wedding reception, the groom was clearly tired and emotional, stumbling over his words as he tried to thank the guests.”
Examples
simple
“He had too much wine and is now tired and emotional.”
contextual
“The party went on until dawn, and by the end, several guests were looking a bit tired and emotional.”
complex
“After the long wedding reception, the groom was clearly tired and emotional, stumbling over his words as he tried to thank the guests.”
Origin
First used by the British satirical magazine Private Eye in 1967, in a spoof diplomatic memo to describe the state of cabinet minister George Brown. It is now used as a stock phrase and euphemism to avoid litigation for libel, and the phrase has spread well beyond the magazine.
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