ravin down
ravin down
obsolete To gobble or gulp something down with rapacious hunger. Used by Shakespeare in the play Measure for Measure. So every scope by the immoderate use / Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, / Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, / A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.
See also: down
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- short measure
- measure (something) off
- measure off
- full measure
- full/short measure
- gulp down
- benchmark
- a Roland for an Oliver
- Roland
- vote down