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stick to one's ribs

To be filling, especially due to having a heavy meaty or glutinous consistency.
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When I came to the cold lunch and fried breakfast poor Evans' face fell; he evidently doesn't much believe in the virtue of food, unless it is in the form of a hoosh and has some chance of sticking to one's ribs.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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