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Shakespeare uses something like this phrase in The Tempest, Act V Scene 1:

Sebastian: He is drunk now, where had he wine?

Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they

Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?

How camest thou in this pickle?

Trinculo: I have been in such a pickle since I

saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of

my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.

Trinculo is drunk; "in a pickle" here means pickled, drunk.

Shakespeare also uses the word in its straightforward meaning, as in Sir Toby Belch's "A plague o' these pickled herring!" Here there is also an association with drinking--Sir Toby is drunk.

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