how came you so

English

Adjective

how came you so (comparative more how came you so, superlative most how came you so)

1. (slang, obsolete) Drunk.
   • 1850, William Mark Clark, Clark's Orphean Warbler, page 258:

     A very little man, very 'how came you so,' / Went home on a dingy night; / It was past twelve o'clock, he'd a long way to go, / And he walk'd like a crab, left and right.

   • 1892, James Mew, John Ashton, Drinks of the World, volume 1, page 16:

     Wine took a large part in the Egyptian ritual, […] and in private life women were not restricted in its use. In fact, the ungallant Egyptians have left behind them several delineations of ladies in a decided state of "how came you so?"

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary