drunk as a piper vs gassed

drunk as a piper

adj

  • Thoroughly drunk. 

gassed

adj

  • Drunk; intoxicated by alcohol. 

  • In a gaseous state. 

  • Exhausted 

  • Happy 

  • Excited 

  • High; intoxicated by psychoactive drugs. 

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