i could eat a horse

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used to say that you are very hungry

   I could eat a horse.

   - Anybody hungry? - I could eat a horse.

In the movies · 2

• I could eat a horse.Scarface1983
• - Anybody hungry? - I could eat a horse.About Schmidt2002
• Oh, we won't wait for Harry and Martha. I could eat a horse.Reds1981
• - I could eat a horse. Where's it? - Follow your nose. Right over there.Ray2004

Learn it in full scenes

• About Schmidt2002
  • Ray's Toast at the Retirement Dinner
  • Jeannie's Long-Distance Call Home
  • Warren's Video Letter to Ndugu

From the same entry

• eat alive
• eat, drink and be merry
• eat your heart out
• eat your heart out
• eat humble pie
• eat like a horse
• eat out of your hand
• eat out of house and home
• eat your words
• I'll eat my hat
• what's eating him
• have your cake and eat it

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• put two and two together
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