english
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Eat heartily or greedily, as in For a two-year-old he really tucked into his food. [Early 1800s]
American Heritage Idioms
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Phrase(s): tuck into something to begin eating something vigorously. • The kids really tucked into the stew. • I could see from the way that they tucked into their meal that they were really hungry.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs