grease one's gills

English

Verb

grease one's gills (third-person singular simple present greases one's gills, present participle greasing one's gills, simple past and past participle greased one's gills)

1. (slang) To eat a hearty meal.
   • 1763, Robert Lloyd, The St. James's Magazine, volume 2, page 188:

     He'll give a guinea at the least,
     To grease his gills at city feast:
     But tho' to belly he's so kind,
     Yet not one souse to treat his mind.

   • 2022, M. Laszlo, The Phantom Glare of Day:

     I know how to grease my gills, I do. And I've got me a good recipe for kidney pie.