When you eat like a horse, you get thirsty

牛飲馬食
gyuu.in.ba.shoku

Literally: cow – drink – horse – eat

Alternately: To drink like a cow and eat like a horse; to eat and drink a huge amount.

Note: The first half can also be 鯨飲 (gei.in; “to drink like a whale”). The phrase can also be rendered, somewhat prosaically, as 暴飲暴食 (bou.in.bou.shoku; “violent/heavy eating and drinking”).

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