eat like a horse

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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)

• eat like a bird

• 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)

• ate like a horse