“I could eat a horse”in other languages
I'm extremely hungry.
English
French
Spanish
EnglishFrenchSpanishSame idea, different pictures
English names the meal: a whole horse. French and Spanish name the eater instead: a wolf's hunger, une faim de loup, and a dog's hunger, hambre canina.
French also has crever la dalle, informal and vivid, where the dalle is the throat.
More sayings in other languages
- Be afraid of one's own shadow
- Get up on the wrong side of the bed
- In full swing
- In one's element
- In the middle of nowhere
- Have itchy feet
- Jump at the chance
- Keep one's cool
- Kick against the pricks