eat like a bird

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Verb

eat like a bird (third-person singular simple present eats like a bird, present participle eating like a bird, simple past ate like a bird, past participle eaten like a bird)

1. (colloquial, simile) To eat in small amounts rather than in a single full meal.

Antonyms

• eat like a horse
• eat like an animal

 

Translations

to eat small amounts

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吃得少

• Finnish: syödä kuin varpunen
• French: manger comme un moineau (fr)
• Polish: jeść jak ptaszek (pl)
• Portuguese: comer como um passarinho
• Spanish: comer como un pajarito

See also

• watch (something) like a hawk

 

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