gorge on

gorge on (something)

To eat something eagerly and usually to excess. A reflexive pronoun can be used between "gorge" and "on." I didn't mean to gorge myself on cake at the party—it was just so good! If the kids gorge on snacks now, they won't be hungry for dinner.
See also: gorge, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gorge on

v.
To eat enthusiastically and in great amounts: He gorged on pizza. She gorged herself on junk food.
See also: gorge, on
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • gorge on (something)
  • gorge oneself on
  • gorge with
  • gorge with (something)
  • cast the gorge at
  • cast the gorge at (something)
  • feel gorge rise
  • not do (someone or oneself) any favors
  • buy (yourself) time
  • buy time
References in classic literature
He was looking at the gorge on either side and sniffing uneasily, for there was a sweetish-sourish smell in the air, very like the smell of a big ant-hill on a hot day.
The length of the gorge on both siaes was hung as it were with black shimmery velvet curtains, and Mowgli sank as he looked, for those were the clotted millions of the sleeping bees.
Second Jungle Book
For their analyses, Reusser and his colleagues collected quartz samples from the walls and channels of two gorges, each 10 to 20 meters deep: the 3-kilometer-long Mather Gorge on the Potomac River along the Maryland-Virginia border and the 5-km-long Holtwood Gorge along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
Quick bite: some gorges carved surprisingly fast
The Great Gorge on Alaska's Mount McKinley, which Echelmeyer has studied extensively, is less than a mile wide and more than nine thousand feet deep, although the bottom third is covered by the Ruth Glacier.
Guinness, which does not define its categories, recently rejected Fisher's petition to have Bolivia's Susisa declared the deepest gorge on earth.
Gauging Bolivia's gorges