eat like a horse |
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| Lexical unit types: | simile |
| Topics: | people: actions |
| Source domains: | animals |
| Particles: | - |
| Similes: | like |
| Verbs: | - |
| CEFR Levels: | - | Synomyms: | - | Antonyms: | eat like a bird | Definition: | to eat a lot because you have a large appetite | Examples: |
I eat like a horse after swimming.
Croatian: jesti kao lud/slon/vuk |
Motivation: |
the conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS Kövecses, Zoltán. 2010. Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Slične leksičke jedinice: shake like a leaf, sing like a bird, live like a king, quick as a flash, eat like a bird, cry like a baby, slow as a snail, swim like a fish, sleep like a baby, run like the wind, quiet as a mouse, keep an eye on , give someone a hand, with your eyes closed, all eyes are on someone/something, busy as a bee