grease one's gills

verb

Definitions

  1. To eat a hearty meal.

    • He'll give a guinea at the least, To grease his gills at city feast: But tho' to belly he's so kind, Yet not one souse to treat his mind.
    • I know how to grease my gills, I do. And I've got me a good recipe for kidney pie.

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