- пьян как зюзя
- прост., неодобр.cf. drunk as an owl; tipsy as a thrush in a vineyard; drunk as muck; tight as a brick (dram) Amer.; pissed as a newt
...и в сраженье / Раз в настоящем упоенье / Он отличился, смело в грязь / С коня калмыцкого свалясь, / Как зюзя пьяный, и французам / Достался в плен: драгой залог! (А. Пушкин, Евгений Онегин) — One day when leading his battalion, / He fell from off his Kalmuck stallion / Drunk as an owl, into a trench, / And so was captured by the French - / A precious pledge!
- Сына посадили. Шофёром работал, человека сбил. Шёл человек, пьяный как зюзя, прямо под колёса и готов. А сыну подводят, что виноват. (И. Грекова, Без улыбок) — 'My son's been arrested. He was a driver, and he killed someone. The man was walking along, pissed as a newt, and went straight under the wheels, and that was that. They made out my son was guilty.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь . 2014.