to feel like a landwhale
- idiom
- Offensive
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sentirse hinchado
- After three helpings of dinner, I felt like a landwhale and couldn't move from the couch.
Examples
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Whenever he eats too much, he says he feels like a landwhale for hours afterwards.
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After that huge dinner, I feel like a landwhale!
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She regretted the extra slice of cake, admitting she was feeling like a landwhale all afternoon.
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I feel like a landwhale!
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After three helpings of dinner, I felt like a landwhale and couldn't move from the couch.
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She regretted the extra slice of cake, admitting she was feeling like a landwhale all afternoon.
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Whenever he eats too much, he says he feels like a landwhale for hours afterwards.
Synonyms
To eat too much and feel very full after a meal
To think you have eaten too much and now seem too heavy
To feel heavy and uncomfortable after eating too much
How Full
Surface Forms
Morphology
The construction 'feel like a landwhale' uses a transparent simile frame ('feel like') and a compound metaphor ('land' + 'whale') so a learner who knows 'feel', 'like', 'land' and 'whale' can infer a meaning of being very large, immobile or overfull. However, 'landwhale' is slang and the jump from that metaphor to the specific nuance of being extremely full or bloated after eating is metaphorical and culture-specific, so the meaning is not fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
The phrase feel like a landwhale likely comes from the image of a huge whale stuck on land, heavy and slow after leaving the water. So people say it when they feel 'extremely full or bloated' after eating too much.