To be buttery: to have money.
To be a cap: to be drunk. Word for word: have your helmet full. Helmet is taken for the head here.
To be loaded to ass: to be drunk.
To be complete: to be dead drunk.
To be of a good tallow: to be very drunk.
To be in molasses: without misery.
To be in trouble: misery.
To be in the vineyards: to be completely drunk.
To be in a neighboring state: to be drunk
To be cold, or to be: to be completely drunk (thieves' slang).
Being of the nature of leeks, with a white head and a green tail: it is said of an old man who is still banding for the
fair sex and has snow only on the head.
Not to be at the wedding: to be in a critical position.
To be of the parish: to be drunk.
To be under: to be drunk.
To be in train: to start to get drunk (slang of the workers).
To be the ox: to be the victim of some bad joke, some bad neck
To be mature: to be drunk.
To be paf: to be in a state of intoxication.
To be a pawn: to be drunk.
To be stiff, stiff as justice: to be drunk without wanting to appear so, to sit up with affectation.
To be on the wind in the wind: to be drunk, - in the slang of the workers who served in the marine infantry.