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