“Drunk as a skunk”in other languages
Extremely drunk.
English
French
Polish
Same idea, different pictures
English picked the skunk for the rhyme; skunks don't drink. Polish is drunk as a pig, pijany jak świnia.
French has a whole menu. Bourré comme un coing, stuffed like a quince. Beurré comme un p'tit Lu, buttered like a Lu biscuit, a double pun, since beurré is slang for drunk. Saoul comme un Polonais, drunk as a Pole, which a popular story traces to Napoleon: told that his Polish cavalry had charged drunk, he is said to have answered that his other soldiers should learn to be as drunk as the Poles.
More sayings in other languages
- Lead someone up the garden path
- Eat humble pie
- Have egg on your face
- Fall for it hook, line, and sinker
- Fall on deaf ears
- Firing on all cylinders
- Flat broke
- Flat out
- Beat a dead horse