stick to someone's ribs

Verb

 * 1)  To be filling, especially due to having a heavy meaty or glutinous consistency.
 * 2) * 1905,, The Voyage of the Discovery, Volume 2, ISBN 9781108074773 (2014 Cambridge University Press edition), p. 274 (Google books):
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1990,, The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn, ISBN 9789049982935 (2012 Open Road edition), ch. 12 (Google preview):
 * Those two mincemeat tarts hadn't stuck to his ribs the way he'd thought they would.

Related terms

 * stick-to-your-ribs (adjective)

Translations

 * Esperanto: satigi
 * Finnish:
 * French: tenir au corps