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A Blinkin' Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

big eater

In Chinese there's an idiom to describe someone who is a useless good-for-nothing, they just eat and are like a barrel full of food.

In English, is there such an idiom or saying?
  

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As far as I know, this simply means that a person eats a lot.

  • As far as I know, this simply means that a person eats a lot.
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As far as I know, this simply means that a person eats a lot.
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so what idiom do English users have using an example about eating but not doing anything that would mean someone is a "good-for-nothing."
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Or "a waste of space"
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In Chinese there's an idiom to describe someone who is a useless good-for-nothing, they just eat and are like a barrel full of food.

In English, is there such an idiom or saying?
"Children"?

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