to stick to your ribs
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6.5
- idiom
- Informal
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sustancioso
- The restaurant is known for its dishes that stick to your ribs, providing comfort and nourishment.
- food that sticks to your ribs
But when you eat it, she give you some get some more grits so you fully so it stick to your ribs.
- But when you eat it, she give you some get some more grits so you fully so it stick to your ribs.
Examples
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On chilly days, I love to eat meals that stick to your ribs and fill me with warmth.
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Some of his masculine enterprise might stick to my ribs.
Fiction book (1990) -
It'll stick to your ribs.
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"You gotta have something that's gonna stick to your ribs.
Fiction book (1996) -
Stick-to-your-ribs breakfast on a cold morning.
Blog text (1) -
After a long day hiking, a hearty stew really sticks to your ribs and keeps your energy up.
Antonyms
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
The image of food that 'sticks' to your 'ribs' conveys a metaphor of something that remains with you and provides lasting satisfaction, so a learner who knows the words can often infer the basic idea. However, the mapping from a literal physical sticking to the idiomatic sense 'filling/satisfying' is metaphorical and culturally shaped, so the sense is only partially predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrase stick to your ribs may come from the image of a heavy meal that seems to stick to your ribs and stay in your body, keeping you full for a long time. That's why it now means 'to be filling and satisfying'.