There are lots of other answers here already, but none seems to have brought up the colorful folk idiom hollow leg.
Wiktionary glosses with some quotations, of which I here reproduce the first, which sufficiently illustrates how the expression is used (so-and-so has a hollow leg):
Capacity to eat large quantities
- 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, page 228: When I was young and growing a lot, and Mama couldn't feed me enough, she used to say I had a hollow leg.
Urban Dictionary glosses:
Imaginary reservoir for one who overindulges in liquor, food, etc. without showing signs of effect.
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