drunken sailor

collocation in English

meaningsofdrunkenandsailor

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drunken
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈdrʌŋ.kən/us
/ˈdrʌŋ.kən/
A drunken person is (often) under the influence ...
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sailor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈseɪ.lər/us
/ˈseɪ.lɚ/
a person who works on a ship, especially one who is not ...
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(Definition ofdrunkenandsailorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I retorted that if he believed that he was suffering from the mad hallucinations of adrunkensailor.
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There may have been the odd person here and there who had adrunkensailorattitude, but generally the attitude was very responsible.
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They spend money like adrunkensailorwith eight arms.
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I call that thedrunkensailorsyndrome.
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It was found that the fortress was fully occupied, and he was taken to a cell which at that moment was occupied by adrunkensailor.
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Adrunkensailorcame up the gangway.
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Imagination that is absent from a mundane orderly life is represented not by a dandified aesthete but instead by adrunkensailordreaming of catching tigers in red weather.
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This type is first class in dealing with drunken sailors.
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When cost-cutters start, they throw money around like drunken sailors and sometimes make mistakes.
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Riots in 1741 and 1742 took place over high bread prices and drunken sailors.
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Until the late 1930s a small square lockup stood nearby where drunken sailors and townspeople were incarcerated for the night.
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However, what she is actually observing is not men acting in a refined or civilised manner, but rather drunken sailors staggering off the wreckage of their ship.
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