I could eat a horse

English

Alternative forms

• I could eat a brick

Pronunciation

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Phrase

I could eat a horse

1. (idiomatic, hyperbolic) I am very hungry; short form of "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46:

     She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.

Hypernyms

• I'm hungry

Translations

I am very hungry

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: гладен съм като вълк (gladen sǎm kato vǎlk), умирам от глад (umiram ot glad)
• Catalan: tinc una fam de llop
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我餓死了 / 我饿死了 (wǒ èsǐ le)

• Czech: mám hlad jako vlk
• Danish: jeg er skrupsulten
• Dutch: Ik heb berenhonger, Ik heb reuzenhonger
• Finnish: voisin syödä vaikka hevosen
• French: j’ai une faim de loup (fr)
• Galician: teño moita fame
• German: ich habe Hunger wie ein Bär, ich habe Hunger wie ein Wolf
• Greek: πεινάω σαν λύκος (peináo san lýkos)
• Hungarian: farkaséhes vagyok (literally “I'm hungry as a wolf”)
• Icelandic: ég er glorhungraður m, ég er glor m
• Japanese: 腹ペコ (harapeko) (informal), おなかペコペコ (onaka pekopeko) (colloquial, informal)
• Latvian: es varētu apēst zirgu
• Norwegian: (I'm hungry as a wolf) jeg er sulten som en ulv
• Polish: (lit.: I would eat a horse, including hoofs) zjadłbym konia z kopytami m, (I'm hungry as a wolf) jestem głodny jak wilk m
• Portuguese: eu poderia comer um cavalo
• Romanian: am o foame de lup
• Russian: (lit.: I would eat a bull) я быка́ бы съел m (ja byká by sʺjel), я быка́ бы съе́ла f (ja byká by sʺjéla), (I'm hungry as a wolf) я го́лоден как волк m (ja góloden kak volk), я голодна́ как волк f (ja golodná kak volk)
• Spanish: tengo más hambre que el perro de un ciego
• Swedish: jag är hungrig som en varg
• Turkish: (lit.: I'm so hungry, I could eat a lamb for a single meal) o kadar açım ki tek oturuşta bir kuzu yiyebilirim

See also

• eat like a horse