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could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck en · X

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1. (Australia, slang) Am/are/is extremely hungry.
   • Tis only hunger. gristlefuck: I could tear the crotch from a low-flying duck with me bare teeth! 2004, Anthony Crowley, The Frail Man, page 37:
   • Against all odds we got there, and a marvelous meal it was, even though we were all hungry enough to eat the crotch out of a low-flying duck by that time. 1995 January 4, JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS, “ZooFest Report V”, in bit.listserv.words-l (Usenet):
   • But the ferry into Devonport was two hours late and I was famished. I could have eaten the crotch out of a low-flying duck.” 2010, Nicholas Shakespeare, Secrets of the Sea, →ISBN, page 444:
   • Max stretched. “I'm so famished I could eat the crotch out of a low-flying duck. 2006, Louise Deteliga, Fashion Slaves, →ISBN, page 82:
   • "'Ken oath, I'm so hungry I could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck," announced Jaime. 2001 March 12, Sydney Webb, “Foundation and Huns - Postscript”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet):

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