sad drunk

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Meaning: (idiomatic)A person who isgloomyordepressedwhenintoxicated, unable to retain reasonable control of theirmentalandemotionalfaculties.Antonyms:happy drunk,good drunk1987,Andrew M. Greeley, chapter 2, inPatience of a Saint,Warner Books,page16:What the hell is happening to me? They are looking at me like I’m drunk, but I’m either a mean drunk or asad drunk, never a happy drunk. A happy Red Kane is impossible.2016,Lisa Scottoline, chapter 11, inDamaged,St. Martin's Press,page137:Mary sighed inwardly. She hadn’t known she was asad drunk, until now. Maybe the horrible day was catching up with her. “Natalia, can I get more champagne?”2020,Tarryn Fisher, chapter 19, inThe Wrong Family,Graydon House Books,page119:It was worse drunk than sober. Winnie was asad drunk, a dark drunk; she thought of bad things when there was alcohol in her.

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