cast-iron stomach

cast-iron stomach

The ability to eat foods that others may find unusual, unpalatable, or too spicy, without experiencing any ill effects like nausea or upset stomach. My husband has such a cast-iron stomach that he can eat a ghost pepper and feel perfectly fine afterward. You must have a cast-iron stomach if you're eating pickles with peanut butter!
See also: stomach
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cast-iron stomach

Fig. a very strong stomach that can withstand bad food or anything nauseating. If I didn't have a cast-iron stomach, I couldn't eat this stuff. Fredknown for his cast-iron stomach—ate ten whole hot peppers.
See also: stomach
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • a strong stomach
  • strong stomach
  • have a strong stomach
  • settle (one's) stomach
  • settle stomach
  • complain of
  • complain of (something)
  • can't stomach (something)
  • perma-fried
  • alone in a crowd
References in periodicals archive
You don't just need patience to get through it but, because of the shocking violence, a cast-iron stomach too.
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Certainly, my cast-iron stomach for dramatized violence has become more sensitive.
As for Polly's love of spicy food, Aniston admits she doesn't have a cast-iron stomach. "I don't like Indian or Chinese food, it's too spicy.
As for Polly's love of spicy food, Aniston admits she doesn't have a cast-iron stomach.``I don't like Indian or Chinese food,it's too spicy.
Boating a cast-iron stomach and an innate curiosity, I gamely took to the exhibit floor at the Natural Product Expo West in Anaheim, Calif., in March.
It often makes me nervous when all the experts agree - as in the unanimous agreement on Gordon Brown's total eclipse - but a person now wanting to bet on a McCain victory would have to have a very stout heart and a cast-iron stomach.
William, who has a cast-iron stomach,helped finish off the last spoonful of chill is and meat from my plate after enthusiastically putting away his lamb patia.
I think you just have to have a cast-iron stomach to eat it on any kind of regular basis.
So you might think that chickens would have cast-iron stomachs capable of ingesting a variety of dubious ingredients without harm--while more-discriminating terns would be far more sensitive to contaminants in their food.
"Fortunately, some of us have cast-iron stomachs and the ability to ride into battle with joy."
Like an X-rated version of its predecessor this would turn even Dana Scully and Fox Mulder's cast-iron stomachs.