full as a tick

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Engorged with food or drink, especially alcoholic drink.

   “[B]etween that Dutch cattle salesman and the barkeeper and myself, it would have taken a bookkeeper to have kept a check on the drinks we consumed. . . . Well, I took a seat for a shine, and for two hours I sat there as full as a tick, and as dignified as a judge on the bench.”