I could eat a horse
English
Alternative forms
- I could eat a brick
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Phrase
I could eat a horse
- (idiomatic, hyperbolic) I am very hungry; short form of "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
- 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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Translations
I am very hungry
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See also
- I'm hungry