She didn’t seem hungry and just picked at her salad. I gave her a bowl of curry and she wolfed it down. Someone who picks at their food eats slowly, eating very little of what is on their plate and showing no interest in it: The phrasal verb pick at, meanwhile, means the opposite. If you wolf down food, you eat a lot of it very quickly and hungrily. Other phrasal verbs describe the speed at which we eat. Dan polished off what was left of the curry. The boys will polish that off in no time. It suggests they do this quickly and enthusiastically: Meanwhile, if someone polishes offfood, they eat all of it or they finish what is left of it. This phrase is often said to children, when encouraging them to eat:Ĭome on now, Alfie, eat up your vegetables! If you eat something up, you eat all the food that you have been given. I pigged out on chicken and fries last night. If you pig out, you eat a large quantity of food on one occasion: ‘Pig out’ is another informal phrase in this area. For a slim person she can certainly put it away! He can put away two whole pizzas with no trouble. Other phrasal verbs say something about how much we eat. The informal phrase put away means ‘eat a large amount of food’ and tends to be used when commenting on someone who habitually eats a lot: Shall we go out for dinner, or would you prefer to eat in? And if you order prepared food to be brought to your home, you (UK) order it in or (US) order out for it: You probably already know eat out, meaning ‘eat in a restaurant’, but you can also say that you eat in, meaning ‘have a meal at home’. Let’s start with phrasal verbs that convey where we eat. It’s been a while since we published a phrasal verb post on this blog, so we’re making amends with this round-up of phrasal verbs relating to a subject that most of us are interested in – eating. Listen to the author reading this blog post: Oscar Wong / Moment / Getty Images
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