千ち鳥どり足あし

noun

tottering steps; drunken staggering

Describes the unsteady, zigzag walk of a drunk person, likened to the tracks of a plover. Often used in the phrase 千鳥足で歩く.

• 彼かれは酔よっ払ぱらって千ち鳥どり足あしで家いえに帰かえった。

  He went home with tottering steps, drunk.

• 千ち鳥どり足あしのサラリーマンが駅えきから出でてきた。

  A salaryman with a drunken stagger came out of the station.