狼吞虎咽

狼吞虎嚥
lángtūn-hǔyàn
idiom HSK 7-9 #20,901

Meanings

  1. 1 to wolf down food
  2. 2 to devour ravenously
  3. 3 to gobble up greedily

Examples

HSK 2
Bié lángtūnhǔyàn, mànmàn chī!
Don't wolf it down - eat slowly!
HSK 3
Tā è le yī tiān, huí jiā hòu lángtūnhǔyàn de chī le liǎng wǎn fàn.
He had been hungry all day and wolfed down two bowls of rice when he got home.

Tips

memory
Picture a wolf (狼) swallowing (吞) whole and a tiger (虎) gulping (咽) - two apex predators devouring prey without pausing to chew. The vivid animal imagery makes this idiom unforgettable and captures frenzied, ravenous eating.

Stroke Order

狼 láng
吞 tūn
虎 hǔ
咽 yàn