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“Drunk as a skunk”in other languages

Extremely drunk.

  • English
  • French
  • Polish
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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.

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