I'd ate the back door buttered

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Heard in Tipperary

A term to describe someone who is very hungry indeed.

In use

Jaysis Chnist I'm so hungry I'd ate de back door buttered. I'm gonna bayte de pig outa de cabbage when I get home!

Posh English

Good gracious I am so famished I could consume an entire sideboard, and I shall thoroughly thrash the sideboard upon my return!