Things you don't hear so much anymore

[Lilith7]

There's an expression that my father used which I've never tracked down.  "Fonged", meaning obviously drunk, or "a bit fonged", meaning showing the effects of alcohol but not incapable.

Has anyone run across this?   My father was born in Petone, Aotearoa, but his parents were Scottish and English.

Yep, my parents used to say that sometimes too. And another was 'pie eyed' or 'three sheets to the wind' for being drunk - another was 'drunk as forty cats.'



Another one for having just managed something was 'by the skin of your teeth.'