Food vocab

Front

MEANING

to eat food quickly, enthusiastically, in a hurry, as if there was no tomorrow, eating with intent.

Can be used literally or figurativelly.

Back

EXPRESSION

to chow down

Front

MEANING

means to eat something; or eat a large amount of food with great appetite

Back

EXPRESSION

to tuck away

Front

MEANING

the situation is: you ran around your neighborhood, then you helped a bricklayer build a wall around a house... and now you hungry

Back

EXPRESSION

work up an appetite

example: "you've been building that wall for nearly three hours. Come on in for lunch. I bet you worked up an appetite."

Front

EXPRESSION

Make someone's mouth water

Back

"dar água na boca"