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Tired and emotional

Tired and emotional is a chiefly British euphemism for being drunk. It was popularised by the British satirical magazine Private Eye in 1967 after being used in a spoof diplomatic memo to describe the state of Labour Cabinet minister George Brown, but is now used as a stock phrase, possibly because of British slander and libel law.