英语词汇“to eat like a bird”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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to eat like a bird

colloquial. to eat like a bird: to eat very little; to pick at one's food.

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1856 Godey's Lady's Bk. July 44/2 Do you think I grudge the miserable trifle she consumes—she eats like a bird?

1890 L. Hearn tr. ‘A. France’ Crime of Sylvestre Bonard 191 At her age one does not know anything, one does not care about anything in particular, one eats like a bird.

1939 New Yorker 15 Apr. 38/3 Wasn't you hungry? Why, you eat like a bird.

1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life iv. v. 399 Dad, who had been eating like a bird before we came to the Lady's, ate two whopping pieces of roulage and washed them down with two cups of hot black chicory coffee.

extracted from eatv.

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单词	to eat like a bird
释义	> as lemmas to eat like a bird colloquial. to eat like a bird: to eat very little; to pick at one's food. ΚΠ 1856 Godey's Lady's Bk. July 44/2 Do you think I grudge the miserable trifle she consumes—she eats like a bird? 1890 L. Hearn tr. ‘A. France’ Crime of Sylvestre Bonard 191 At her age one does not know anything, one does not care about anything in particular, one eats like a bird. 1939 New Yorker 15 Apr. 38/3 Wasn't you hungry? Why, you eat like a bird. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life iv. v. 399 Dad, who had been eating like a bird before we came to the Lady's, ate two whopping pieces of roulage and washed them down with two cups of hot black chicory coffee. extracted from eatv. < as lemmas
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