Idiom
make a pig of oneself
Meaning
To eat to excess; to overeat; to gorge.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I made a pig of myself at the buffet.”
“The cake looked so delicious that I made a pig of myself and ate three slices.”
“After weeks of strict dieting, he finally made a pig of himself at the wedding feast, ignoring all his previous restraint.”
Examples
simple
“I made a pig of myself at the buffet.”
contextual
“The cake looked so delicious that I made a pig of myself and ate three slices.”
complex
“After weeks of strict dieting, he finally made a pig of himself at the wedding feast, ignoring all his previous restraint.”
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