179. Fullness of Food

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Numbers 11:20
Roberts says, that this figure of speech is used in India to convey the idea of being filled to satiety. A host says to his guests, “Now, friends, eat mookamattam: to the nose. That is, Eat until you are filled to the nose. Of a glutton it is said, “That fellow always fills up to the nose.”