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Who's hungry?
DIR By: Truman Overby
Date: June 14, 2019, 8:34 am
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As some of you may have noticed, I tend to lean towards colorful
words and phrases in my writing. In everyday life it's the same,
for example, I'm rarely merely hungry or famished or empty or
ravenous or starving. No, I'm usually so hungry that I could eat
the bottom out of a bird cage. What colloquial phrase do you
have to convey that you're so hungry that you could eat a bowl
of maggots ;D
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Re: Who's hungry?
DIR By: NealC
Date: June 14, 2019, 10:17 am
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I was hungry enough to eat a horse, then I read the OP. Now I
want to throw up.
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Re: Who's hungry?
DIR By: Truman Overby
Date: June 14, 2019, 10:30 am
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> I was hungry enough to eat a horse, then I read the OP. Now I
want to throw up.
>
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Dogs eat their vomit. Chew on that little factoid for a while.
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Re: Who's hungry?
DIR By: Susan
Date: June 14, 2019, 10:33 am
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The artist formerly known as Truman Overby-- I think that is my
favorite of all your names so far.
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Re: Who's hungry?
DIR By: NealC
Date: June 14, 2019, 10:53 am
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My favorite factoid is: "All odors are particulates".
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Re: Who's hungry?
DIR By: Nikola
Date: June 14, 2019, 10:56 am
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Mám hlad jak vlk = I am hungry as a wolf (similar to Ho una fame
da lupo in Italian).
Hlady šilhám = I am going cross-eyed from hunger.
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Re: Who's hungry?
DIR By: Truman Overby
Date: June 14, 2019, 11:00 am
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My dad used to say that his big guts were eating his little
guts.
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Re: Who's hungry?
DIR By: Nikola
Date: June 14, 2019, 11:26 am
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OK, if you insist on talking about gross stuff, we also say:
Mám žízeň, že bych vypil mrtvýmu oko = I am so thirsty I
would drink a dead man's eye.
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Re: Who's hungry?
DIR By: Truman Overby
Date: June 14, 2019, 12:00 pm
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> OK, if you insist on talking about gross stuff, we also say:
>
> Mám žízeň, že bych vypil mrtvýmu oko = I am so thirsty I
would drink a dead man's eye.
>
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's called cannibalism.
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Re: Who's hungry?
DIR By: MartinSR
Date: June 14, 2019, 4:57 pm
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--- Quote from: The Artist formerly known as Truman Overby link
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> [quote author=Nikola link=topic=1157.msg16867#msg16867
date=1560529588]
> OK, if you insist on talking about gross stuff, we also say:
>
> Mám žízeň, že bych vypil mrtvýmu oko = I am so thirsty I
would drink a dead man's eye.
>
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's called cannibalism.
[/quote]
Or possibly scavenging (a new English word for me). Maybe
necrophagia (more understandable... to understand the meaning
not the behaviour).
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