high as a kite

Meaning

1. behaving in a very excited way, especially because of being strongly affected by alcohol or drugs

In the movies · 1

• He's high as a goddamn kite...American History X1998

Learn it in full scenes

• American History X1998
  • Sweeney Makes Danny a Deal
  • Derek Vinyard's TV Interview
  • The Basketball Court Bet

From the same entry

• be on your high horse
• have a high old time
• high and dry
• high and mighty
• in high dudgeon
• smell, stink, to high heaven
• hell or high water
• take, claim, seize, the moral high ground
• of a high order
• a high profile
• it's about time
• on high