eat like a bird 的定义
- Eat very little, as in Jan is very thin—she eats like a bird. This simile alludes to the mistaken impression that birds don't eat much, and dates from the first half of the 1900s. An antonym is eat like a horse, dating from the early 1700s, and alluding to the tendency of horses to eat whatever food is available. For example, I never have enough food for Ellen—she eats like a horse!
eat like a bird 近义词
等同于 nibble
更多eat like a bird例句
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- Two Indonesian airlines, Garuda and Lion Air, have seen Fernandes eat their lunch and are only now responding.
- So I just patted him kind-like on the shoulder and sat down.
- It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.
- Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
- Fourteen genera, representing about 19 species, of Mallophaga are reported for 20 different species of bird hosts.
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
- May looked along at the dimpled grace, And then at the saint-like, fair old face, “How funny!”
- He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!