to feel like a total porker
- idiom
- Offensive
:
sentirse como un cerdo
- She laughed and said she felt like a total porker after the holiday feast.
Examples
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After that huge dinner, I feel like a total porker!
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Whenever I skip the gym for a week, I start to feel like a total porker.
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After eating two slices of cake, I feel like a total porker.
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I feel like a total porker!
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After eating two slices of cake, I feel like a total porker.
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She laughed and said she felt like a total porker after the holiday feast.
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Whenever I skip the gym for a week, I start to feel like a total porker.
Synonyms
To feel heavy and uncomfortable after eating too much
To be very full and uncomfortable after you eat too much
Antonyms
How Full
Surface Forms
Morphology
feel + like + a + total + porker
The construction 'feel like' (feel as if) combined with 'porker' (literally a pig) gives a clear metaphorical image of someone who has overindulged or feels fat, so a learner who knows the constituents can grasp the basic idea. However, 'porker' as a slang insult and the specific self-critical/humorous nuance are idiomatic and culturally marked, so the full pragmatic meaning is not entirely predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Feel like a total porker comes from comparing a person to a porker, an old word for a pig that eats a lot. So, it now means 'to feel you have eaten too much' or 'to feel overweight'.