Idiom
appetite comes with eating
Meaning
Starting an activity increases one's desire to continue it.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Start the project, because appetite comes with eating.”
“I did not want to exercise today, but I started anyway because appetite comes with eating.”
“Although she initially hesitated to begin the research, she soon found that appetite comes with eating as the complexity of the subject drew her in.”
Examples
simple
“Start the project, because appetite comes with eating.”
contextual
“I did not want to exercise today, but I started anyway because appetite comes with eating.”
complex
“Although she initially hesitated to begin the research, she soon found that appetite comes with eating as the complexity of the subject drew her in.”
Origin
Calque of French l'appétit vient en mangeant, first used by François Rabelais.
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