No mention that the father was falling-down drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Or, alternatively, see if I need a falling-down day.    From Wordnik.com.  [between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day] Reference

Jesse could be falling-down drunk and still sound normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lawman Lover]

Oh, and by the falling-down silos there is chicory blooming!.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 4th, 2007] Reference

She was a falling-down drunk with a five-month-old little girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Smerconish: Anna Nicole's Toxic Motherhood] Reference

Ten acres of burned-down trees and weeds and a falling-down house?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predator]

You see them on the street, clad in hoodies and falling-down pants.    From Wordnik.com.  [» Baby Boy Strocel.com] Reference

Functionally drunk for most of it but also falling-down drunk in places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

Nowitzki's falling-down 16-foot runner with 32.2 seconds left sealed the win.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Possibly because he's guilty, truly guilty, falling-down full-of-remorse guilty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Wolff: Bernie and Ruth Are a Fun Couple] Reference

She pointed at a rectangle of cleared land just beyond the last falling-down hut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabotaged] Reference

Jack's falling-down 3 from the corner made it 89-75 and sealed it with 2: 11 left.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

You'll get falling-down drunk, and you'll lie there with the shakes from the coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burglar On The Prowl]

The Villanova guard worked his way into the lane for a falling-down floater in traffic.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

You also see the "brownfields" of rusted-out, closed factories, empty, falling-down buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Johnson: Lorain, OH Keep It Made In America Town Hall Meeting] Reference

And our symptoms aren't always the of the clutching-heart, falling-down, in-the-movies variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leslie Goldman: Am I Slowly Giving Myself a Heart Attack?] Reference

Separating them is a falling-down fence consisting of low concrete posts connected by metal pipes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Moment] Reference

QUESTION: ... smaller classes, more teachers and so forth, and rebuild 6,000 falling-down schools?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Ari Fleischer Gives First Briefing as White House Press Secretary - January 22, 2001] Reference

I was marrying a falling-down professional drunk, it turned out, and the marriage lasted 30 months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why not toenail clippers, too?] Reference

He'd been drinking, but he wasn't falling-down drunk, although with him sometimes it was hard to tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Mornings]

Although there were shoals of small craft drawn up on the shore, the ferrymen were mostly falling-down drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

But Roy came back with an off-balance, falling-down jumper, and Webster followed with a dunk to make it 70-62.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Portland extended the lead to 96-90 after Travis Outlaw hit a jumper and Roy made a falling-down three-pointer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blazers tie series vs. Rockets; Mutombo retires] Reference

Since then, the orchard has sat, overgrown, with its falling-down house, an investment, an eventual housing development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predator]

"I don't make a habit of getting falling-down drunk, Herald," he replied, with a grin to take the sting out of the words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magic's Price]

The reflection off the glass makes it a bit difficult to see, but the picture depicts two men completely falling-down drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-07] Reference

That is except for the three who were working at the top of my 45-degree angle hill making repairs on the falling-down fence.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: A 5.4 Earthquake, Pish. A House Fire is Work Interruptus] Reference

Prince then stole an errant inbound pass from Turkoglu and fed Billups, who hit a falling-down 3 just before the final buzzer.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Basketball - Detroit vs. Orlando] Reference

Mike noted that there was an old, falling-down fence hidden in the tall weeds, and beyond it he could see the top of a chimney.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scarlet Nights] Reference

I topped a small hill and saw the falling-down Copeland place below me briefly flicker into new condition, with fresh whitewash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

It remained a puzzling, unimpressive collection of falling-down structures cobbled hastily together out of broken, undressed rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deluge Drivers]

It is falling-down hysterical, particularly Conrad's attempts at the end to do the promo at the end about "the man who was hung...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Broadcasters #27] Reference

When George met Caroline just before the wedding, he called for a stiff brandy and stumbled through the ceremony falling-down drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Palin: a Doomed Queen? | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr] Reference

In a falling-down house with three male scientists (probably my favorite living arrangement of all time - men are awesome roommates) 5.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fabulous Five Things] Reference

People know it, and when they see somebody who is morbidly obese or a falling-down drunk, they will make judgments based on those things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jet Li versus Michelle Yeoh...a missed opportunity] Reference

Engineer fathers may not excel at surprise babysitting duties, but give them a falling-down house and just wind them up and watch them go!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling Apart in One Piece] Reference