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high as a kite
Intoxicated, as by alcohol, as in After three beers she's high as a kite. The adjective high has been used in the sense of “drunk” since the early 1600s; the addition of kite dates from the early 1900s. The phrase is now used of disorientation due to any drug.
Example Sentences
Whoever thought a song about being high as a kite on drugs, stalking someone else’s girlfriend would resonate quite so much?
“Whoever thought a song about being high as a kite, stalking someone else’s girlfriend would resonate quite so much?”
Rick, high as a kite and feeling a kinship to the misunderstood animals, takes it upon himself to set some of the snakes free.
He’s very happy with all three, John says, but he had a difficult time watching some of the footage of himself at the peak of his early success — knowing full well that he was either “high as a kite,” to borrow a Bernie Taupin line, or severely depressed and lonely.
An 18-year-old “high as a kite” at a Bob Marley concert.
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