It is a simile
hyperbole
could eat a horse
idiom
It's a figure of speech meaning that it is too late for something.
figure of speech according to categories
figure of speech is a kind of a style. the credit of this is point of figure.
SIMILE
could eat a horse
simile
idiom
If you are referring to the line 'A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!' then no, there was no real horse, it was a figure of speech. A clever play on words by William Shakespeare.
Hungry Horse was created in 1995.
Hungry Horse Dam was created in 1953.
The sentence "The sea is a hungry dog" is an example of metaphor. The sea is not actually a dog, but the writer is indicating that the sea shares some similarities with the behavior or mannerisms of a hungry dog.
It's a figure of speech meaning that it is too late for something.
there are lots of hungry horse restraunts but each have different names such as the bystander
A figure of speech
As in "I am so hungry, I could eat a horse"- means you are extremely hungry- since a horse is VERY big.