eat like a horse

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Verb

eat like a horse (third-person singular simple present eats like a horse, present participle eating like a horse, simple past ate like a horse, past participle eaten like a horse)

1. (colloquial, simile) To eat large amounts of food. (connoting a large quantity of food, but not one of gluttony or sloppiness)

Antonyms

• eat like a bird

Translations

eat large amounts

• Finnish: syödä kuin hevonen
• French: manger comme un ogre (fr), manger comme quatre (fr)
• Portuguese: comer como um animal
• Russian: жрать как конь (žratʹ kak konʹ) (rude)
• Spanish: comer como un animal, tener buen saque
• Yiddish: פֿרעסן ווי אַ פֿערד (fresn vi a ferd)

See also

• I could eat a horse
• work like a horse, piss like a racehorse
• eat like a pig, eat like a bird, wolf (as a verb, of eating ravenously)

Anagrams

• ate like a horse