狼吞虎咽

狼吞虎咽 [láng tūn hǔ yàn]

1. ■ eat (one's food) like wolves and tigers; devour like a wolf; eat eagerly and with great speed; eat in a terrible hurry; eat like a horse; eat voraciously; eat with the appetite of a wolf; garbage down; gobble up; gorge; gorge oneself with; have a wolf in one's stomach; make a pig of oneself; polish off; pitch into; wolf down one's food:

为了及时赶上火车， 他在5分钟内就把两碗饭狼吞虎咽地吃光了。 In order to catch the train in time, he polished off two bowls of rice in 5 minutes.