(colloquial, simile, idiomatic, UK) Very disappointed; miserable.
(colloquial, simile, idiomatic, UK) Very disappointed; miserable.
“you have to say if you're someone who defected from the greens you'd be sick as a parrot rn”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(AU, simile, slang, vulgar) Very drunk.
An Australian and British comparative slang phrase meaning extremely drunk. The simile is vivid and humorous — parrots, when fed fermented fruit, can get visibly intoxicated, stumbling and squawking. To be "pissed as a parrot" is to be at the sloppy, barely-standing level of intoxication, well past tipsy and deep into the kind of evening you won't fully remember. A staple of Aussie and UK party vocabulary, often said with a grin rather than judgment.
(British, idiomatic) Extremely annoyed, fed up, tired (of or with something).
(US, colloquial, simile) Thoroughly miserable or dejected.
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(colloquial, simile) Extremely sick; very ill.
2010 December 7, [http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/8723726.Wirral_Euro_MP_is_sick_as_a_parrot_over_England_World_Cup_bid_humiliation/ Wirral Euro MP is sick as a parrot over England World Cup bid humiliation], Wirral Globe.
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