feed one's face
verb1
Informal To eat.
- "Step up and feed your face." "What?" stammered Samuel, perplexed. "EAT!" said the other.1909, Upton Sinclair, chapter 4, in Samuel the Seeker:
- "Feed your face, and we'll go upstream." Bob ate rapidly.1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in The Rules of the Game:
2 more examples
- While the players are out there whacking away at tennis balls, the lower-deck patrons are feeding their faces on $5 shrimps and sipping $10 glasses of wine.1997 August 31, George Vecsey, “Sports: Fill Ashe Stadium With Some Real Fans”, in New York Times, retrieved 13 Oct 2013:
- “Though why I should give the boys bacon and eggs when they've already fed their faces wi' fish 'n' chips, I can't imagine.”2010, Katie Flynn, The Cuckoo Child, →ISBN, page 292:
- Synonyms
- fill one's face