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Pissed as a (brewer’s) fart

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Origin of: Pissed as a (brewer’s) fart

Pissed as a (brewer’s) fart

According to the OED, this rather crude simile for being drunk dates from the 1990s. According to Cassells Dictionary of Slang it dates from the 1960s.