overtired

overtired
   drunk
   Alcohol makes you sleepy, or tired2:
    I had on occasion stepped in at the last moment when he was overtired-emotional to write and file some Daily Telegraph piece for him. (Whicker, 1982 — he was Randolph Churchill, when working as a war correspondent in Korea)
   Overtiredness is drunkenness:
    [George Brown] turned up to the first production meeting — in the morning — in an advanced state of over-tiredness. (Private Eye, 1980)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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