out of one's skull and be big with something.

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out of one's skull?< what does it mean?

and I take the idiom from the sentence " he bombed out of his skull"
and I am totally lost in what it means.

and....

some author is big with screenwriters.<- what does it mean?
(guess it means the author affects screen writers?"

thanks for ur concern .

[Ravage]

Bombed out of his skull: Slang: Extremely intoxicated, drunk
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To be "big" with a group in that way means to have a lot a popularity with.

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thanks so much !

[David L.]

some author is big with screenwriters.<- what does it mean?
To be "big" with a group in that way means to have a lot a popularity with.

Screenwriters adapt books into film scripts. So, in this context, it means that this particular author's works are a popular source for screenwriters to turn into film scripts to submit to studios.