A growing youth has a wolf in his belly



A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.

Prov. Young people who are growing fast are hungry all the time. If you doubt that a growing youth has a wolf in his belly, you should see how much my fourteen-year-old cousin eats.
See also: belly, grow, wolf, youth

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
ErynER-inEnglish (Modern)
TighearnachTEER-nakhIrish
Hafiz-Arabic
RolandRO-lənd (English), ro-LAWN (French), RO-lawnd (Hungarian)English, French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Medieval French
ImogenIM-ə-jənEnglish (British)
Borislavabah-ree-SLAH-vah (Russian)Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian