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单词 game as a pissant
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game as a pissant
2. Chiefly Australian. In similative and comparative phrases. drunk as a pissant: extremely drunk. game as a pissant: very brave or courageous.
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the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > [adjective] > exceedingly brave
oultrepreu1477
over-brave1620
(as) game as a pebble1829
game as a pissant1930
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk
drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350
to-drunka1382
as drunk as the devilc1400
sow-drunk1509
fish-drunk1591
swine-drunk1592
gone1603
far gone1616
reeling drunk1620
soda1625
souseda1625
blind1630
full1631
drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652
as full (or tight) as a tick1678
clear1688
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700
as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727
as drunk as a piper1728
blind-drunkc1775
bitch foua1796
blootered1820
whole-seas over1820
three sheets in the wind1821
as drunk as a loon1830
shellaced1881
as drunk as a boiled owl1886
stinking1887
steaming drunk1892
steaming with drink1897
footless1901
legless1903
plastered1912
legless drunk1926
stinko1927
drunk as a pissant1930
kaylied1937
langers1949
stoned1952
smashed1962
shit-faced1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
trashed1966
faced1968
stoned1968
steaming1973
langered1979
annihilated1980
obliterated1984
wankered1992
muntered1998
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel i. 77 I'm drunk as a pissant still.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. iv. 87 Game as a piss ant or drunk as a piss ant.
1949 H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley 185 Why, goddam it to Jesus Christ and back, they're thicker than piss ants.
1961 P. White Riders in Chariot xiii. 448 ‘And on such a day!’ she shrieked, looking at the clock. ‘I bet that nephew of yours will be full as a piss-ant by eleven!’
1993 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 20 Nov. (News & Features section) 3 I was game as a pissant and said, ‘right, we'll give it a go’.
extracted from pissantn.adj.
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