appetite comes with eating

English

Etymology

Calque of French l’appétit vient en mangeant, first used by François Rabelais.

Phrase

appetite comes with eating

1. (idiomatic) Starting an activity increases one's desire to continue it.

Translations

starting something increases your desire to continue it

• Danish: appetitten kommer mens man spiser
• Finnish: ruokahalu kasvaa syödessä
• French: l’appétit vient en mangeant (fr)
• German: der Appetit kommt beim Essen (de)
• Greek: τρώγοντας έρχεται η όρεξη (trógontas érchetai i órexi)
• Italian: l'appetito vien mangiando
• Japanese: 隴を得て蜀を望む (ja)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: appetitten kommer mens man spiser

• Polish: apetyt rośnie w miarę jedzenia (pl)
• Romanian: pofta vine mâncând
• Russian: аппети́т прихо́дит во вре́мя еды́ (ru) (appetít prixódit vo vrémja jedý)
• Spanish: el comer y el rascar, todo es empezar, el apetito viene comiendo
• Swedish: aptiten kommer medan man äter