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What is the origin of the idiom to wolf down?

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∙ 11y ago
Updated: 9/23/2023

To eat very quickly and greedily, as if you are starving.

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What is the origin of the idiom to wolf down?

It is not an idiom. It is an expression. The difference is that an idiom's meaning cannot be derived from the meaning of its individual words. In the expression wolfing down food, the meaning is clearly derived from the meaning of the words, and people have been saying it for hundreds of years.


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