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tough cased
adj.
The drunkenness of one who requires careful handling, particularly near changes in level.
tough cookied
adj.
Reduced by drink to a resilient, round-edged figure who survives each collision with the stairs.
Yordy got
tough cookied
and bounced gently off the wall at the landing.
tough crowded
adj.
Softened by drink into an audience difficult to please, especially when choosing a route downstairs.
Olurotimi became
tough crowded
and rejected every proposed staircase with a gesture.
tough goinged
adj.
Sharpened by drink into a difficult passage in which each stair demands separate concentration.
tough guyed
adj.
Loosened by drink into a conspicuously hardy man whose knees have abandoned the performance.
tough loved
adj.
Emboldened by drink to correct another person's balance with stringent but affectionate supervision.
Judye got
tough loved
and escorted Ciel down the stairs by the elbow.
tough lucked
adj.
Slowed by drink to the pace of bad fortune, with each step arriving as a fresh setback.
tough nut to cracked
adj.
Drunk to the point where each stair becomes a problem requiring prolonged physical reasoning.
Aleia was
tough nut to cracked
and spent a minute deciding which foot came next.
tough nutted
adj.
Drunk and difficult to manoeuvre, particularly when presented with a staircase and a deadline.
tough pill to swallowed
adj.
A drinker who accepts difficult news with more equanimity than the stairs deserve, and yet still will not attempt those stairs.
tough row to hoed
adj.
Slowed by drink to a pace at which the arduous route home acquires several resting places.
tough selled
adj.
Having drunk enough to make even a sensible purchase feel like a difficult negotiation.
Auttum was
tough selled
, bargaining furiously over whether the pork pie counted as supper.
tough sleddinged
adj.
Of a drinker who has found the journey home difficult to proceed with.
tough timesed
adj.
Describing a drinker who has reached the hard part of the evening, namely getting home.
tough tittied
adj.
A drinker who accepts that the pub is closing without expecting sympathy about it.
tough-caked
adj.
A drinker so far gone that the evening has been reduced to its hardest, most concentrated remainder.
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