| 词汇 | eat like a horse |
| 释义 | Idiom eat like a horse Theme: EATING - MUCH to eat large amounts of food. (Informal.)No wonder he's so fat. He eats like a horse.John works like a horse and eats like a horse, so he never gets fat. Idiom eat like a horse if you eat like a horse, you always eat a lot of food.She eats like a horse, so I don't know how she manages to stay so thin. eat like a horseTo eat large quantities of food. Kim is staying for dinner, and she eats like a horse, so you better make some extra food. eat like a horseFig. to eat large amounts of food. No wonder he's so fat. He eats like a horse. John works like a horse and eats like a horse, so he never gets fat. eat like a horseINFORMALIf someone eats like a horse, they eat a lot because they have a large appetite. When Kelly is on medication, he eats like a horse. eat like a horseeat heartily and greedily.eat like a ˈhorseeat very large quantities of food: My brother eats like a horse but never puts on any weight.eat like a bird/horse, toTo eat very little/very much. The first comes from the misconception that birds don’t eat much, and indeed, they seem to peck away at tiny bits of seed and other food. In fact, however, they do eat quite a bit relative to their size, some birds actually consuming their weight in food each day. In print the term appeared only in the twentieth century, as in Barnaby Ross’s The Tragedy of X: Drury Lane’s Mystery (1930): “She ate like a bird, slept little.” To “eat like a horse,” based on the idea that horses eat a great deal, dates from the eighteenth century. |
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