"Three sheets to the wind" means drunk. It comes from ships with loose sails, that staggered like a drunk person.
It refers to having three sails rigged on a sailing boat, a sail was also known as a sheet. I think it was a tactic used in runnng a boat through a storm, erratically, hence becoming a simile for being drunk and unable to walk in a straight line... The term "sheet" refers to the rope used to secure the sail. It took three ropes to properly secure the sails on the ship. Having three "sheets" loose or "in the wind" would cause the ship to move about much like a drunk person staggering. Hence the original wording of the phrase "three sheets IN the wind". As far as most can find, the first written instance of this saying was in 1821.
I think you mean billowing.The sheets are billowing in the wind.The smoke is billowing from the chimney.
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Three sheets to the wind means you are drunk.
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Four Sheets to the Wind was created on 2007-01-22.
3 Sheets to The Wind - it's an expression for drunk which comes from sailing ships, where sheets are the lines used to control sails - a sail that should be secured at all four corners would be flapping uncontrollably if three of its sheets were undone - "to the wind".
On sailing vessels ropes are called sheets. The rope that is used to control the main sail, for example, is known as the main sheet. Ropes that control the jib sail are known as jib sheets, etc. The expression "three sheets to the wind" to describe someone who is inebriated, comes from the fact that if three of the ropes that control sails were loose and "to the wind" the vessel would be out of control.
Four Sheets to the Wind - 2007 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
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Three Sheets - 2006 Three Sheets to Gibraltar 3-6 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:PG