Idiom - Stick to your ribs
Hi
I came across two meanings of the idiom stick to your ribs. Could you please tell me which one is better or more natural?
Stick to your ribs = (of foods) be filling and nourishing (positive connotations)
Stick to your ribs = if you describe food as sticking to your ribs, you mean that it makes you feel like you have eaten a lot of it. (negative connotations)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/stick-to-sb-s-ribs
Thanks,
Tom
Top answer
I would say that stick to your ribs has sort of a neutral connotation, perhaps more negative than positive, but I have always encountered it, and used it myself, in instances like this one: Have you had their mashed potato pizza? ] In other words, the food is delicious and filling, but it makes you feel sort of sluggish and slow, like you just need to lie down and take a nap. So I guess that the second meaning is perhaps closest to the actual "definition" of stick to your ribs.
- I would say that stick to your ribs has sort of a neutral connotation, perhaps more negative than positive, but I have always encountered it, and used it myself, in instances like this one: Have you had their mashed potato pizza?
- ] In other words, the food is delicious and filling, but it makes you feel sort of sluggish and slow, like you just need to lie down and take a nap.
- So I guess that the second meaning is perhaps closest to the actual "definition" of stick to your ribs.
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I would say that stick to your ribs has sort of a neutral connotation, perhaps more negative than positive, but I have always encountered it, and used it myself, in instances like this one:
Have you had their mashed potato pizza? It sticks to your ribs [but it's so good!]
In other words, the food is delicious and filling, but it makes you feel sort of sluggish and slo
0My family always used it as meaning "thicken you up", but I was particularly scrawny as a child, and I am not seeing that meaning elsewhere.
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