drunk as a fiddler vs paralytic

drunk as a fiddler

adj

  • Thoroughly drunk. 

paralytic

adj

  • Very drunk. 

  • Affected by paralysis; paralysed. 

  • Pertaining to paralysis. 

noun

  • Someone suffering from paralysis. 

  • A drug that produces paralysis. 

How often have the words drunk as a fiddler and paralytic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )