stick to someone's ribs

Meaning: (idiomatic,of food)To befilling, especially due to having a heavymeatyorglutinousconsistency.1905,Robert F. Scott,The Voyage of theDiscovery, Volume 2,→ISBN(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 ahooshand has some chance ofsticking to one's ribs.1990,Charlotte MacLeod,The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn,→ISBN(2012 Open Road edition),ch. 12 (Google preview):Those two mincemeat tarts hadn'tstuck to his ribsthe way he'd thought they would.2017April 14, Ashley Edds, “7 Tasty Slow-Cooker Vegetarian Dinners Even Meat Eaters Will Love”, inwomen.com, retrieved27 April 2017:I've been trying to find a way to incorporate more vegetarian dishes into my everyday rotation, and to be honest, it's been hard to find something hearty and thatsticks to my ribs, that's also meat free.

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