Eating and Drinking

See Also: FOOD AND DRINK, MANNERS

1. Ate as if there were a hidden thing inside him, a creature of all jaws with an infinite trailing ribbon of gut —T. Coraghessan Boyle
2. Ate like a cart-horse —H. E. Bates
3. Ate like a famished wolf —Louisa May Alcott
4. Ate like a trucker —Jonathan Kellerman
5. Ate silently like two starving peasants —James Crumley
6. Ate slowly, thoughtfully, as if fixing the taste of each spoonful in her mind —Paule Marshall
7. Bit off an end of it [a candy bar] like a man biting off a chew from a plug —Peter De Vries
8. The bread slices collapsed like movie-set walls beneath her bite —Tom Robbins
9. Chewed..in odd little spasms, as if seeking a tooth that wouldn’t hurt —Paul Horgan
10. Chews his granola like a Clydesdale —Ira Wood
11. Chomping popcorn [in a movie theatre] like their upper teeth are mad at their lower —Tonita S. Gardner, It’s All a Matter of Luck, 1986
12. Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you —Joan Rivers
13. Down poured the wine like oil on a blazing fire —Charles Dickens
14. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper —Anon

    See Also: ADVICE

15. Eating [voraciously] … like a blowfly on a shit pile —Steve Heller
16. Eating like three men —Louis Adamic
17. Eating quickly and silently, like a bunch of taxi drivers eager to get back to the job —Daphne Merkin
18. Eating quickly and abstractedly, like a man whose habits of life have made food less an indulgence than a necessity —Elizabeth Bowen
19. Eat like wolves —William Shakespeare
20. Eats like a well man and drinks like a sick —Benjamin Franklin
21. Eats … like stolen fruit —Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. Gulped the tea and felt it like sleep in her body —Frank Tuohy
23. He’s like a camel as far as serious liquid refreshment is concerned —Iris Murdoch

    See Also: DRINKING

24. Lap up the gravy just like pigs in a trough —Lewis Carroll
25. Mouth moving as rapidly as the treadle on Granny’s sewing machine —William H. Gass
26. Nibble … in quick little bites like a squirrel with a nut —George Garrett
27. Sip [a drink] … as though he tasted martinis for a living —Sue Grafton
28. (He had) stuffed as full as an egg —Anon English ballad, “The Cork”
29. Swallowed it [a small sandwich] like a communion wafer —T. Coraghessan Boyle