In English, if you eat and drink a lot and really mess the place up someone might say you're eating like a pig. In Japanese...
Japanese: 牛飲馬食
Reading: gyuu in ba shoku
Meaning: heavy eating and drinking; gorging and swilling
Literally: "cow drinking horse eating" as in, drinking like a cow and eating like a horse.
What about the pig? She's cute, leave her alone!
Another very similar expression in Japanese is:
Japanese: 鯨飲馬食
Reading: gei in ba shoku
Meaning: heavy eating and drinking; eating mountains of food and drinking oceans of liquor
Literally: "fish drinking horse eating" as in, drinking like a fish and eating like a horse.
As you can see, Japanese people are not quite sure who is the bigger drinker, but what is certain, horses eat the most!
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