Name: English Tutor Nick P Adjective Phrase (26) Blind Drunk
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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

Adverbs of degree

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.

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English Tutor Nick P Adjective Phrase (26) Blind Drunk

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