It is saying for when you are very hungry, but exaggerated.
As in "I am so hungry, I could eat a horse"- means you are extremely hungry- since a horse is VERY big.
People say like that, cause they think their soo soo hungry. They are then really hungry, and a horse is like HUGE, so they think they could eat a horse, since their so hungry. Easy.
(Famished) I am so famished I could eat a horse.
A cliche
You could say "I could eat a horse."
could eat a horse
To eat like a horse simply refers to the fact that some can eat a great deal. A horse may eat 2-6 flakes of hay a day, plus oats, fruit, or other pellets. (A flake is about 1/8th of a bale of hay; hay bales (small ones) can weigh 40-60lbs.Thus if you "eat like a horse" you eat alot!In addition, a horse can eat so much that they can make themselves seriously ill, even causing death!This simply means you eat a lot. Horses are big animals and they do eat a lot. If someone says this to you take it as a compliment that you have a healthy appetite."Eat like a horse" simply means that someone eats a LOT of food.
A hyperbole is an extreme exaggeration. Example: I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!
This saying is a Hyperbole or exaggeration of how hungry you are, you are so hungry you could a whole cow, but physically that would be impossible.
A hyperbole is an exaggeration. Ex. I've told you a million times to put the chicken away!!
i am now ... but horse is a little too expensive, maybe gravel 177 ...During WWI, Germans were so starved that they were forced to butcher and eat the remains of horses that had fallen during military operations... photographs available on "Timewatch: Last Day of WWI" (2009) re-aired on The Military Channel on Friday, March 4, 2011.
it means a person so hungry they could eat anything