English Idioms – Food idioms

today I’m just going to do a short video
on idiomatic expressions involving
eating habits idioms are sentences which
do not take on their literal meaning so
my first example sentence I could eat a
horse doesn’t actually mean you will eat
a whole horse it just means that you
feel very very hungry so I’m so hungry I
could eat a horse
just means you know you are very hungry
you would like to eat
my next sentence I eat like a pig it
just means that you eat a lot of food
it’s just an eating habit so if you see
pigs eat they consume a lot they have
their troughs and they just drone on num
num they eat a whole lot of food so I
eat like a pig it means you just eat a
lot of food and finally my final
sentence my eyes are bigger than my
stomach
it just means when you are so hungry
that you could eat a horse sometimes you
look in the menu and you order hamburger
chips or I might have steak onion rings
and then sometimes you ordered too much
food when the food actually arrives you
feel not as hungry as you thought you
were so my eyes are bigger than my
stomach or my eyes are bigger than my
belly it just means you’ve ordered too
much food and you cannot eat all of it
so the three idiomatic expressions
involved in eating habits today I could
eat a horse
it means you feel very hungry I eat like
a pig
it means you eat a lot and finally my
eyes are bigger than my stomach it just
means you’ve ordered too much food and
you cannot finish that’s today’s lesson
over thank you very much