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English
Pronunciation
Phrase
I could eat a horse
- (idiomatic, hyperbolic) I am very hungry; short form of "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46:She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.
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Translations
I am very hungry
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: гладен съм като вълк (gladen sǎm kato vǎlk), умирам от глад (umiram ot glad)
- Catalan: tinc una fam de llop
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 我餓死了 / 我饿死了 (wǒ èsǐ le)
- Czech: mám hlad jako vlk
- Danish: jeg er skrupsulten
- Dutch: Ik heb berenhonger, Ik heb reuzenhonger
- Finnish: voisin syödä vaikka hevosen
- French: j’ai une faim de loup (fr)
- Galician: teño moita fame
- German: ich habe Hunger wie ein Bär, ich habe Hunger wie ein Wolf
- Greek: πεινάω σαν λύκος (peináo san lýkos)
- Hungarian: farkaséhes vagyok (literally “I'm hungry as a wolf”)
- Icelandic: ég er glorhungraður m, ég er glor m
- Japanese: 腹ペコ (harapeko) (informal), おなかペコペコ (onaka pekopeko) (colloquial, informal)
- Latvian: es varētu apēst zirgu
- Norwegian: (I'm hungry as a wolf) jeg er sulten som en ulv
- Polish: (lit.: I would eat a horse, including hoofs) zjadłbym konia z kopytami m, (I'm hungry as a wolf) jestem głodny jak wilk m
- Portuguese: eu poderia comer um cavalo
- Romanian: am o foame de lup
- Russian: (lit.: I would eat a bull) я быка́ бы съел m (ja byká by sʺjel), я быка́ бы съе́ла f (ja byká by sʺjéla), (I'm hungry as a wolf) я го́лоден как волк m (ja góloden kak volk), я голодна́ как волк f (ja golodná kak volk)
- Spanish: tengo más hambre que el perro de un ciego
- Swedish: jag är hungrig som en varg
- Turkish: (lit.: I'm so hungry, I could eat a lamb for a single meal) o kadar açım ki tek oturuşta bir kuzu yiyebilirim
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