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high as a kite

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*high as a kite and *high as the sky 
1. Lit. very high. (*Also: as ~.) The tree grew as high as a kite. Our pet bird got outside and flew up high as the sky.
2. Fig. drunk or drugged. (*Also: as ~.) Bill drank beer until he got as high as a kite. The thieves were high as the sky on drugs.
See also: high, kite


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Laura Giddings, attorney general for the island state, told Australia's Parliament: "We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles.
We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," state attorney-general Lara Giddings told a parliamentary estimates hearing.
She must have been high as a kite when she said it.
 
 
 
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