stone sober

Completely sober; not intoxicated to any degree by drugs or alcohol. I'm stone sober, so I'll drive us home. No, I'm not high—I've been stone sober from the day I started working here!

stone(–cold) sober

and cold sober

absolutely sober. I am stone-cold sober, or I will be by morning anyway. I found the secret to waking up cold sober. Don't drink.

stone sober

verb

See stone cold sober

See also: sober, stone

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Stone sober, they say, and is he ever, grimacing between a rock and a hard place.

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This time he's cold stone sober and I think he'll get a shock" Ronnie Wood's ex-wife Jo on him becoming a father again aged 68.

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And being stone sober, I was far more agile than he.

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The problem with the job performance standard is that if Tower was an alcoholic he could have been stone sober during office hours and still had his judgment and temperament somewhat impaired by liquor.

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He wasn't drunk but he certainly wasn't stone sober, either.

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On guitar is Darren, who dodged each and every one of his juvenile sentences then went three years stone sober to escape a 15-year-run as an adult.