❤️ Eating Expressions
✅ Eat like a horse: To eat a lot
✅ Eat like a bird: To eat very little
✅ Pack/put away: to eat or drink a large amount
✅ Wolf down: Eat food very quickly
✅ Force down: Make yourself eat when you don’t want to
✅ Work up an appetite: Do something to make you hungry
✅ Make your mouth water: Something that makes you want to eat something
✅ Eat humble pie: To accept shame( normally about being wrong )
✅ A dog-eat-dog world: An environment that is ruthlessly competitive
✅ Out to lunch: To act crazily or strangely
✅ Eat out of one’s hand: A person who has been brought under the control of another
✅ Bite your tongue: Stop yourself from saying something that might be offensive.
✅ Chew the fat: Chat
✅ To want someone’s head on a platter: To be very angry with someone
✅ Stuff your face: To eat a lot of food quickly and greedily
✅ Pig out: To eat a lot
✅ Polish off: To eat everything ( on a table of in a fridge )
✅ Pick at: To eat very little because you are not interested in the food
✅ Snack on: To eat something between meals
✅ Bite off more than yo can chew: To take on more than you are capable of handling
✅ Eat someone out of house and home: When a guest or visitor eats all of your food
✅ Make a pig of oneself: Eat too much and too quickly in a way that is considered impolite
✅ Eat own’s word/eat crow: (figurative)- to admit that you were wrong about something
Source: English Corner DT YVR-Classes on Tues/Wed/Thurs 330-430.
