Question

What is the meaning of the phrase "like a starving man gorged himself on food"?

Answer 1

Hello welcome to QuestionCove, is there more answer choices? Also a straving man gorged himself on food might mean that they did it desperately and possibly viciously (depends on the context)

Answer 2

mathhelper i don't think those are the correct choices to choose from. Laisha, do you think this phrase is literal or a metaphor?

Answer 3

can't find the choices, but here's the passage

As the sky darkened ominously above him, Freddy struggle to light the fire he had built over the last hour. Camping alone had its drawbacks, but Freddy preferred it to the last day of school chaos that was camping with others. He enjoyed his vacation from the world of technology and immersed himself in the kind, gentle music that nature provided.
This time, however, Freddy wished he had brought his quick-starter fire kit with him. The steel-gray clouds crowded together in the sky, pushing and shoving into each other. Freddy’s hands shook as he desperately tried for one measly spark to start his fire. He thought that if he could get it started, he could stave off the cold rain for a just a bit longer. “Come on!” Freddy said, just as his fire ignited. Freddy basked in flames like a starving man gorged himself on food. Then, the sky opened up, dumping buckets of stinging, cold rain onto Freddy. The fire hissed and sputtered angrily as it went out, and Freddy raced into his truck, grateful he would have somewhere warm to sleep for the night.