Brahms and Liszt
/brɑːmzən(d)ˈlɪst
/adjective [predicative] British informal
Drunk.During the weekend in the capital Tallinn, while getting totally Brahms and Liszt on a crawl of the bars, he bumped into (perhaps not surprising given his inebriated state) the president of the Estonian Rugby Federation....
- How the heck would I know, I'm completely Brahms and Liszt.
Origin
1930s: rhyming slang for 'pissed'.
- be (or get) lost in the shuffle
- be (or get) mixed up in
- be (or get) mixed up with
- be (or get) shut of
- be (or go) on the lash
- be (or go) on the piss
- be (or go) on the shicker
- be (or have a) down on
- be (or have something) written all over one (or one's face)
- be (or look) a picture
- be (or make) friends with
- be (or make) so bold (as to do something)
- be (or put oneself) in another person's shoes
- be (or stand) in awe of
- Beothuk
- be out of here (or there)
- be out of (or have gone out with) the ark
- be out on one's ear
- be over
- Beowulf
- be part and parcel of
- be party (or a party) to
- be poles apart
- be pushing up (the) daisies
- be put upon