full as a tick

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AU

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Engorged with food or drink, especially alcoholic drink.

    Bragg describes his mother Margaret as a girl eating her first hot dog: it "came wrapped in wax paper, the bun warm and soft, the smell of raw onions, spicy meat and chili filling the car, and she rode the rest of the way full as a tick, mustard on her cheeks."