full as a tick
短语发音
AU
释义与例句
adj.
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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."