cast-iron stomach
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Noun
cast-iron stomach (plural cast-iron stomachs)
- (gastroenterology, figuratively) A capacity to consume without difficulty quantities of alcohol, spicy food, spoiled food, or other food and drink that would normally cause indigestion.
- 1863, Dio Lewis, Weak Lungs and how to Make Them Strong, page 75:
- An animal man, with a cast-iron stomach, or, perhaps quite as often a dyspeptic, with a suffering stomach and ruined health, will say, “don’t keep thinking about your food; it will give you the dyspepsia.
- 1989 January, Texas Monthly, volume 17, number 1, page 125:
- I love to travel and to shop, and I've got a cast-iron stomach, so I gain about ten pounds every trip.
- 2009, Norman Barasch, The Joy of Laughter: My Life as a Comedy Writer, page 104:
- Carroll, with his normally cast-iron stomach, began to complain of stomach pains.
- 2011, Helen Evans, Reluctant Heroes, page 19:
- He must have a cast iron stomach too. He volunteered to finish off any spare sandwiches or apple cores or even orange peel, if there were any, going begging.
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