half-cut

• “Actually, even half-cut it would not have been difficult to see which way the match was going.”

  The Guardian: Andy Murray swears by bad body language in Australian Open defeat | Martin Kelner

• “Mikhail and his crew - a privateering crew of former Soviet aviators, often half-cut on booze, always unshaven and mostly the wrong side of 40 -- had been there, done it, and got the T-shirt a thousand times, over Chechnya, Iraq, Somalia, Colombia, the Congo and here in Afghanistan.”

  The Huffington Post: Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror

• “There won't be any barney-mugging but we can get half-cut my little goof.”

  A Flapper's Dictionary (1922)

• “He showed us to the kitchen and introduced us to a tall, flame-haired woman with a knife in her hand and a half-cut onion on the chopping block before her.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deadly

• “The raw experiences of our visits were supplemented with painful, until-then-suppressed memories from childhood of being stuck in bank holiday traffic for hours with the distant promise of seeing half-cut morris men stagger about a village fete.”

  The Guardian: Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out

• “From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.”

  The Guardian: Russell Brand on Amy Winehouse: 'We have lost a beautiful, talented woman'

• “I can see some Hungarian lorry driver, half-cut on Slivovitz and with one eye on his SatNav, wondering why he isn't near Plymouth yet turning that into a sad pile of bricks.”

  Pillars of the Community

• “Re Diplo's comment about the mower missing presumed dead, the partly mown, or half-cut, verge is becoming common around here.”

  On the Verge

• “He does this over and over again, until the giraffe's so half-cut it can't stand, so it keels over.”

  Making Light: Open thread 137

• “He simply stared at the tipped mower, the tangled string, the half-cut grass.”

  Fictionaut: The Boundary Line

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