Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase 26. The adjective phrase

  • today is blind drunk. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone is

  • blind drunk he or she is extremely drunk. Or so intoxicated remember,

  • intoxicated is another word for drunk that one may have trouble seeing. If

  • someone gets extremely drunk, he or she could temporarily have blurred vision.

  • You know, where things are not clear. You can't see the sharp images or you know

  • blurred vision, it's almost like you're wearing somebody's glasses where their

  • eyes are a lot worse than yours. That's kind of like blurred vision. Or double

  • vision. This is actually possible. You could get it from a hit in the head but

  • it is possible to get it from drinking too much. You could get so drunk that you

  • could look and you start to see two of everything. That's what they refer to as

  • double vision. So, so today we mean it this way. So if we say somebody's blind

  • drunk. It's like extremely drunk to really to an excessive degree. Almost to

  • the point that it could be like this. Okay now, let's continue with the note.

  • Let's kind of see where the idea came from. The term blind drunk actually was

  • used before and during the time of Prohibition. Remember the time when

  • alcohol was illegal in the United States. Because many bootleggers ... so these are

  • people that made the alcohol illegally. And sold it. That's a bootlegger. They sold

  • moonshine. Well that's how they referred to the illegal alcohol itself is as

  • moonshine. That contained methanol to increase the potency to increase. The

  • potency means to make it stronger. They wanted to make the alcohol even

  • stronger. So some of them, some bootleggers sometimes added this

  • substance to it. Okay as little as four milliliters of methanol could lead to

  • blindness. So this is really truly blindness Too much meant that all

  • could damage or kill optic nerves. Now today you don't have to worry today. You

  • know as long as you're not buying moonshine. if you buy alcohol from you

  • know a normal liquor store, all this is very strictly enforced. You know, about

  • the quality of it and they don't allow those substances in it. I don't know I

  • mean if somebody had moonshine up in the mountain somewhere I'm not so sure I

  • would do it. Even though I think even bootleggers today know that you

  • shouldn't add this. So I think even they don't do it. So probably it won't really

  • lead to blindness today. But the term has stuck around from that time. So we you

  • can't literally or you probably wouldn't literally get blind today from drinking

  • too much, but there was a time and if you bought you know moonshine from the wrong

  • person ... you never know, it could , it happen. All right. Anyway, let's look at some

  • examples as how we still may hear this phrase used today. He got blind drunk

  • from playing drinking games with his buddies from college. Yeah. Yeah , all those

  • drinking games where they challenged each other to drink or they I think one

  • is called quarters where they bounce a quarter in a cup and then they force

  • somebody to drink it or something like that. There's a lot of different types of

  • drinking games. But that's a good place where you could get really really drunk.

  • All right number two. He walked in the door at 3:00 a.m. blind drunk tripping over

  • things in the living room. Yeah maybe he came in and he couldn't even see where he

  • was going. All right. Well number three. I am not

  • surprised to hear you passed out. You were blind drunk. Okay. This is just the

  • way we hear it. This is the way you may hear it used. Anyway I hope you got it. I

  • hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Adjective Phrase 26. The adjective phrase

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it