от пуза

• ОТ ПУЗА есть, наесться, давать что и т.п. substand

[PrepP; Invar; adv]

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⇒ (to eat, allow s.o. to eat etc) until one (or s.o.) is completely satiated, satisfied, can eat no more:

- наесться{{}}от пуза ≈ eat a bellyful;

- eat one's fill;

- fill one's belly;

- eat as much as one wants;

- eat till one is stuffed;

|| накормить кого{{}}от пуза ≈ feed s.o. as much as s.o. wants (can eat);

- feed s.o. till s.o. is stuffed;

- [in limited contexts] fill (stuff) s.o.'s belly.

     ♦ ...Дядя Сандро поручал мне, если я к нему приходил в сезон, только собирать фрукты. "Можешь есть от пуза", - говорил он... (Искандер 3). ...Uncle Sandro merely commissioned me to pick fruit if I came to him in season. "You can eat a bellyful," he would say... (3a).

     ♦ "А япошки сытые... Им от пуза дают" (Гинзбург 2). "The Japs, though, are well fed. ... They're allowed to eat their fill" (2a).

     ♦ "Хавай [substand = ешь], харч казенный, зато от пуза" (Максимов 2). "Help yourself - it's only prison food, but there's as much as you want" (2a).

     ♦ Человечество было бедным и прокармливало себя трудясь... Оно могло, подголадывая, накормить "от пуза" нескольких там князей и церковников... (Битов 2). Man was poor and fed himself by laboring. ...By going slightly hungry he could fill the bellies of a few princes and churchmen... (2a).