eat like a horse
Consume massive portions
To eat like a horse is to consume food in large quantities, suggesting a hearty or voracious appetite: After the hike, I ate like a horse.
The expression draws on horses' reputation for eating substantial amounts of feed.
Usually describes someone's appetite with mild admiration or humor rather than criticism.
- stuff one's faceEat greedily, excessively
- overeatConsume beyond satiation
- snarfDevour hastily, informally
- gormandizeEat voraciously, excessively
- pig outEat to excess
wolf · tuck in · gorge · clean one's plate · bottomless pit · hollow leg · eat someone out of house and home · gluttony · food coma · binge · wolf down · devour · chow down · voracious · feast · all you can eat · feed · satiety
- appetitehungry, hunger, starving, famished, ravenous
- gluttonyglutton, gluttonous, gorge, gorger, gorging
- Horse Idiomsworkhorse, horseplay, one-trick pony, pony up, horsepower
- eating phrasesdig in, chow down, bon appetit, eat up, gobble up