What does “Avere una fame da lupi” mean?
Avere una fame da lupi
Word for word
To have a hunger of wolves
What it really means
To be seriously hungry. This is what you say walking through the door starving, or sitting down after hours without food.
How we say it in English
To be so hungry you could eat a horse
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In bocca al lupo
Break a leg — and, like "break a leg", you never answer with "thank you"
Prendere due piccioni con una fava
To kill two birds with one stone
Essere una gatta da pelare
A thankless task — or, closer to the tone, a real headache
Campa cavallo che l'erba cresce
Don't hold your breath
Menare il can per l'aia
To beat around the bush
Prendere un granchio
To bark up the wrong tree — or to get the wrong end of the stick