"Cast-iron stomach" nghĩa là gì?

Có những người thở thôi cũng mập, còn có người thì ăn mãi chả béo. Photo by Adrienn from Pexels 

"Cast-iron stomach" = cái bụng bằng gang -> bụng khỏe, hệ tiêu hóa tốt, có thể ăn bất kỳ thứ gì. 

Ví dụ 
The man clearly had a cast-iron stomach. It was only in the last few years that his body finally let him down. 

I was 100 % compliant with the stipulation (quy định): “All judges have been tested for cast-iron stomachs and have sworn under oath (tuyên thệ) to have no vegetarian tendencies (xu hướng ăn chay).” 

Relph's favorite Slurpee flavor is banana, but he sometimes switched to Cherry Limeade. To battle flavor fatigue (mệt mỏi) and sugar shock, Relph turned to an age-old remedy (phương thuốc): Water. “I have a cast-iron stomach,” he said. 

Initially, the commissioning (phân công nhiệm vụ, ủy thác) meetings, where ideas were discussed, were held around a small table there, and were sometimes so long that, as an editor commented, one needed a cast-iron stomach to survive them. 

Thu Phương

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