pig (redirected from make a pig)

*fat as a pig

exceptionally fat; grotesquely fat. (*Also: as ~.) If I don't stop eating this cake, I'll be fat as a pig! You really ought to go on a diet; you're as fat as a pig.

See also: fat

ain't fittin' to roll with a pig

Rur. is or are filthy or uncouth. After a day's work in the hot sun, Clyde ain't fittin' to roll with a pig.

See also: roll

buy a pig in a poke

Fig. to buy something without looking inside first. If you don't get a good look at the engine of a used car before you buy it, you'll wind up buying a pig in a poke. I just took the salesman's word that this camera worked. I guess I bought a pig in a poke.

See also: buy, poke

If that don't beat a pig a-pecking!

Rur. That's amazing! Tom: A Republican won the Senate seat! Jane: If that don't beat a pig a-pecking! Mary: Jim lost twenty pounds in one month. Charlie: If that don't beat a pig a-pecking!

See also: beat, if

In a pig's eye! and In a pig's ass!; In a pig's ear!

Rur. Nonsense! (Use caution with ass.) Tom: I wasn't going to steal it. I was just looking at it. Jane: In a pig's eye! I saw you put it in your pocket! Mary: Bill says he's sorry and he'll never yell at me again if I take him back. Jane: In a pig's ass! He's made those promises a hundred times before. Tom: I thought you said I could keep this. Charlie: In a pig's ear! I said you could borrow it.

like stealing acorns from a blind pig

Rur. very easy. Getting Mary to sign the house over to me was like stealing acorns from a blind pig. Tom: Was it hard to fool so many people? Charlie: Nope. It was like stealing acorns from a blind pig.

See also: acorn, blind, like, steal

make a pig of oneself

Fig. to eat too much, too fast, or noisily; to eat more than one's share. Don't make a pig of yourself! Sam is making a pig of himself and taking more than his share.

See also: make, oneself

pig out (on something)

Inf. to eat too much of something; to make a pig of oneself. I intend to really pig out on pizza. I love to pig out on ice cream.

See also: out

Serve as a guinea pig

Fig. [for someone] to be experimented on; to allow some sort of test to be performed on one. (Alludes to the use of guinea pigs for biological experiments.) Try it on someone else! I don't want to serve as a guinea pig! Jane agreed to serve as a guinea pig. She'll be the one to try out the new flavor of ice cream.

See also: guinea, serve

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a guinea pig

if someone is used as a guinea pig, new ideas or products are tested on them They're looking for volunteers to act as guinea pigs for a new AIDS vaccine.

See also: guinea

a pig in a poke

something that you buy or accept without first seeing it or knowing what it is like, with the result that it might not be what you want Clothes from a catalogue are a pig in a poke. You can't feel the quality of the fabric or know if the clothes will fit.

See also: poke

eat like a pig  (informal)

to eat a lot, or to eat noisily and unpleasantly Christine is one of those lucky people who can eat like a pig and still stay thin.

See also: eat, like

in a pig's eye  (American informal)

something that you say which means you think there is no chance that something is true or that something will happen Me, in love with Sandra? In a pig's eye I am.

See also: eye

make a pig of yourself   (informal)

to eat too much I made a real pig of myself at Christmas so I'm on a diet again.

See also: make

make a pig's ear of something/doing something   (British informal)

to do something very badly Tim made a right pig's ear of putting those shelves up.

See also: ear, make

Pig's arse!  (Australian very informal)

something that you say when you do not believe what someone has just told you She told you she was pregnant? Pig's arse! - don't believe a word she says.

See eat like a pig, sweat like a pig

squeal like a stuck pig  (informal)

to make a long, high sound, usually because you are hurt It was only a scratch, but he started squealing like a stuck pig.

See also: like, squeal, stuck

sweat like a pig  (informal)

to sweat (= have liquid coming out of your skin) a lot I was so nervous, I was sweating like a pig.

See slog guts out

See also: like, sweat

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a pig in a poke

something that you buy without knowing if it is good or not When you buy a used car, you may be getting a pig in a poke.

Etymology: based on an old meaning of buy a pig in a poke (buy a pig in a bag), which you would buy without first seeing it

See also: poke

pig out

to eat a lot Our kids dream of staying up late and pigging out on junk food.

See also: out