Chapter Driver of Europe to Drunkenness of D by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Drummers So commercial travellers are called in America, because their vocation is to drum up recruits or customers.

Drummond Light The limelight. So named from Captain Thomas Drummond, R.E.

"Wisdom thinks, and makes a solar Drummond Light of a point of dull lime." - Geikie: Entering on Life (Reading, p.211).

Drumsticks Legs. The leg of a cooked fowl is called a drumstick.

Drunk (Anglo-Saxon drinc-an.)
   Drunk as a fiddler. The reference is to the fiddler at wakes, fairs, and on board ship, who used to be paid in liquor for playing to rustic dancers.
   Drunk as a lord. Before the great temperance movement set in, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, those who could afford to drink thought it quite comme il faut to drink two, three, or even more bottles of port wine for dinner, and few dinners ended without placing the guests under the table in a hopeless state of intoxication. The temperate habits of the last quarter of the nineteenth century renders this phrase now almost unintelligible.
   Drunk as blazes. "Blazes" of course means the devil.
   Drunk as Chloe. Chloe, or rather Cloe (2 syl.), is the cobbler's wife of Linden Grove, to whom Prior, the poet, was attached. She was notorious for her drinking habits.
   Drunk as David's sow. (See Davy's Sow.)

Drunkard's Cloak (A). A tub with holes for the arms to pass through. At one time used for drunkards and scolds by way of punishment.

Drunken Deddington One dead drunk. The proper name is a play on the word dead.

Drunkenness The seven degrees: (1) Ape drunk; (2) Lion drunk; (3) Swine drunk; (4) Sheep drunk; (5) Martin drunk; (6) Goat drunk; (7) Fox drunk. (Nash.)