I could eat a horse

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I could eat a horse

  1. (idiomatic, hyperbolic) I am very hungry.
    • 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.

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