Timeline for The meaning of Idiom like "Killed something"

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Jul 6, 2015 at 1:14	vote	accept	DaeHwan Kim
Jun 6, 2015 at 8:55	history	tweeted			twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/607108583755542528
Jun 5, 2015 at 11:48	comment	added	Brian Hitchcock		In the sense of eating the chicken, the important thing is not how much he liked it, nor how quickly he ate it, but that he ate ALL of it. Or, to use your term, he scarfed it ALL down. Sometimes this is intensified by saying killed it off.
Jun 5, 2015 at 11:23	answer	added	Andrew G		timeline score: -1
Jun 5, 2015 at 9:53	history	rollback	J.R.♦		Rollback to Revision 3
Jun 5, 2015 at 9:53	history	rollback	J.R.♦		Rollback to Revision 2
Jun 5, 2015 at 9:52	history	edited	Maulik V	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 4 characters in body
Jun 5, 2015 at 9:44	answer	added	J.R.♦		timeline score: 3
Jun 5, 2015 at 9:15	comment	added	J.R.♦		I think your last part explains it best. The word killed is being used as figurative slang, and it could refer to his voracious appetite, or to his culinary skills. (As a side note, I noticed that you've accepted an answer here rather quickly – perhaps too quickly).
Jun 5, 2015 at 7:08	vote	accept	DaeHwan Kim
Jul 6, 2015 at 1:14
Jun 5, 2015 at 7:08	history	edited	Maulik V	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 21 characters in body
Jun 5, 2015 at 6:56	answer	added	Vlammuh		timeline score: 2
Jun 5, 2015 at 6:53	review	First posts
Jun 5, 2015 at 7:04
Jun 5, 2015 at 6:50	history	asked	DaeHwan Kim	CC BY-SA 3.0