Plus his ducks fore his drills

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  • ducks: White trousers made of heavy cotton (duck) fabric
  • drills: Khaki trousers made of heavy cotton (drill) fabric
  • plus-fours: baggy trousers reaching below the knee
  • place his ducks before his drills: appears to be a conflation of two idioms, "place his ducks in a row" (organize things well) and "place the cart before the horse" (do things in the wrong order, i.e. the opposite of "ducks in a row"), perhaps confused (or addled, as mentioned two lines above) because of drink