tired and emotional

comparative more tired and emotional · superlative most tired and emotional

1. UKeuphemistichumorousidiomaticDrunk.

   There's nothing like a singalong with tired and emotional Lib Dems [headline]

   2017 September 22, John Crace, “There's nothing like a singalong with tired and emotional Lib Dems”, in The Guardian

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   In 2008, after what you imagine was a tired and emotional dinner, the novelist Michel Houellebecq and the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy determined to start writing to each other about the things that kept them awake at nights.

   2011 December 8, Tim Adams, “Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy – review”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tired, emotional.

   Andy Murray was tired and emotional – in the old fashioned sense – after becoming the first player in the history of tennis at the Olympics to win back-to-back gold medals in Rio on Sunday night.

   2016 August 15, Kevin Mitchell, “No respite for drained Andy Murray after claiming historic Olympic tennis gold”, in The Guardian, retrieved 05 Aug 2021