rolling home
Traveling toward home
Rolling home describes returning home in an unsteady, swaying manner—typically while drunk.
The phrase evokes someone lurching along after a night of drinking, perhaps singing: We went rolling home at 3 a.m.
It also appears in sea shanties describing sailors heading back to port, where the rolling suggests both drunkenness and the motion of waves.
- journeyTravel from place to place
- returningGoing back to origin
- long driveLengthy vehicle journey
- open roadUnobstructed route ahead
- wheelsCircular rotation devices
road · dusk · tired · familiar · headlights · late night · coasting · sunset · weary · drift · cruise · meandering · twilight · winding down · arrival · front porch · comfort · wandering
- gluttonyglutton, gluttonous, gorge, gorger, gorging
direction and destination certainty
rolling homelost
Unable to navigate
wandering aimlessly · going astray · adrift · heading out · setting off
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