As Abel Magwitch would have said, he was "a heavy grubber"; or as a Yorkshireman, with a similar disregard for elegance, would express it, "a good trougher."
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As Abel Magwitch would have said, he was "a heavy grubber"; or as a Yorkshireman, with a similar disregard for elegance, would express it, "a good trougher."
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He turned with twelve portions, much to the delight of umpire Paul Gibb, who subsequently asked for all the spare ‘official’ lunches to be passed on to him. A legendary trougher – he could eat for England any time – Gibb got through most of them before the end of the interval.
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Forget the fact I was playing for England at cricket: I was also an Olympic-standard trougher, and so I would order big steaks, burgers, whatever I fancied, and Blacky thought nothing of ordering the same thing, or something similar.
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Her appetite has definitely gone down, she's the classic bored trougher, but here there's so much to do she can sometimes forget to eat.
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