eat like wolves and tigers
eat like wolves and tigers
Wolf down, a Chinese idiom, pronounced L á NGT ū NH ǔ y à n, means to describe the appearance of eating fierce and urgent. It's from Liu Dongshan's praising Jishun city gate.
The origin of Idioms
Ling Mengchu, Ming Dynasty: "ten people come here to eat wine In a moment, I wolfed down. I could eat sixty or seventy Jin of meat. "
Analysis of Idioms
The synonym be hungry and unwilling to eat the antonym chew slowly allegorical sayings Zhang Sanhe and the big bug snatch food -- gobble it up
Idiom usage
People's education press, Chinese primary school, grade 4, lesson 7 (dignity): these refugees, obviously, haven't eaten such good food for a long time. They don't even care to say a word of thanks, so they gobble it up.
eat like wolves and tigers