eat like wolves and tigers(láng sūn hǔ yàn)

eat like wolves and tigers

Wolf dinner and tiger swallow, pronounced L á ngs à NH à y à n, is an idiom, which means dinner: cooked food, meals. It's used to describe eating in a hurry. It is also called "eating like a wolf and swallowing like a tiger".

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Dinner: cooked food, meals. It's used to describe eating in a hurry. It is also called "eating like a wolf and swallowing like a tiger".

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Ling Mengchu of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 3 of the book "surprise at the first moment of making a case": ten people come to drink by themselves, and the host arranges some chicken, porpoise, beef and mutton to make wine. In a moment, the wolf ate the tiger's throat, counted to eat sixty or seventy Jin of meat, and poured out sixty or seven jars of wine. " I saw them squatting on the ground one by one, eating like a wolf and swallowing like a tiger, and the ditch was full of holes. (Chapter 14 of biography of heroes and heroines by Wen Kang in Qing Dynasty)

Chinese PinYin : láng sūn hǔ yàn