В-77

ВЕТРОМ ШАТАЕТ кого coll VP impers fixed WO

(a person is) unable to walk steadily, hardly able to stand up (from weakness, old age, drunkenness etc)

X-a ветром шатает - a (good) breeze could knock (blow) X over

(in limited contexts) X trembles in the wind (X is so drunk) he can't stand up straight.

"...Колыма, Воркута, Тайшет. Так ведь там от истощения подыхали пачками, доходяг буквально ветром шатало...» (Марченко 1). "...Kolyma, Vorkuta, Taishet. There they used to die like flies from exhaustion, 'goners' would literally tremble in the wind..." (1a).