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"He's so hungry his belly thinks his throat's been cut!"
In oh-so-refined Yorkshire that would be stomach, if you don't mind!
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A young woman fom the inner city who worked for me, speaking of a very large meal, used to say, "We ate like a butcher's dog."
Interesting. There's an expression used in Zild which goes "he was off like a robber's dog". Wonder if there's any linkage?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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> hollow leg
I thought, "He has a hollow leg," was a euphemism for "He can really hold his beer."
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I thought, "He has a hollow leg," was a euphemism for "He can really hold his beer."
No, in my family, "having a hollow leg" means you can "eat like a horse".
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Maybe it depends on whether your family consists of heavy eaters or heavy drinkers??? (how do you make a wink?)
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A regional pronunciation of scoffed, perhaps? Though come to think of it the link between eating and mockery is none too obvious either.
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Here's a good Aussie one -
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse and chase the rider.
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having hollow legs.
My mum used to say my brother was a "bottomless pit", and we all used to say "full as a goog" (goog meaning egg, googy egg ...wonder where that one came from? Wow isn't it interesting, the more you learn, the more you figure out that there's more to learn).  That's why I love it here...
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googy egg ...wonder where that one came from?
A googy chicken.
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