eat like a horse
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Meaning · English
To eat large amounts of food. (connoting a large quantity of food, but not one of gluttony or sloppiness)
Register: colloquial
Where it’s used:
Used
American English
Examples
— She eats like a horse and never gains an ounce.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “eat like a horse” mean?
To eat large amounts of food. (connoting a large quantity of food, but not one of gluttony or sloppiness)
Is “eat like a horse” formal or informal?
eat like a horse is generally colloquial.