- eat someone out of house and home
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To consume such a portion of ones store of food that little is left for the owner.
He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all my substance
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eat someone out of house and home — (informal) To live at the expense of another person so as to ruin him or her • • • Main Entry: ↑home * * * eat someone out of house and home humorous phrase to eat too much of someone’s food when you are a guest in their house Thesaurus: to eat a … Useful english dictionary
eat someone out of house and home — eat (someone) out of house and home humorous to eat most of the food that someone has in their house. The boys have only been back two days and they ve already eaten me out of house and home … New idioms dictionary
eat someone out of house and home — humorous to eat too much of someone s food when you are a guest in their house … English dictionary
eat out of house and home — eat (someone) out of house and home humorous to eat most of the food that someone has in their house. The boys have only been back two days and they ve already eaten me out of house and home … New idioms dictionary
eat out of house and home — This is a humorous way of saying that someone is eating large quantities of your food. I stock up with food when my teenage sons invite their friends over. They d eat you out of house and home! … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
eat — [ it ] (past tense ate [ eıt ] ; past participle eat|en [ itn ] ) verb intransitive or transitive *** to put food into your mouth and swallow it: We sat on the grass and ate our sandwiches. Don t talk while you re eating. I ve eaten too much.… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
eat — eater, n. /eet/, v., ate /ayt/; esp. Brit. /et/ or (Archaic) eat /et, eet/; eaten or (Archaic) eat /et, eet/; … Universalium
eat — [[t]i͟ːt[/t]] ♦♦ eats, eating, ate, eaten 1) VERB When you eat something, you put it into your mouth, chew it, and swallow it. [V n] She was eating a sandwich... [V n] The bananas should be eaten within two days … English dictionary
eat */*/*/ — UK [iːt] / US [ɪt] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms eat : present tense I/you/we/they eat he/she/it eats present participle eating past tense ate UK [et] / UK [eɪt] / US [eɪt] past participle eaten UK [ˈiːt(ə)n] / US [ˈɪt(ə)n] Other ways … English dictionary
eat — W1S1 [i:t] v past tense ate [et, eıt US eıt] past participle eaten [ˈi:tn] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(food)¦ 2¦(meal)¦ 3 eat your words 4 eat your heart out 5 eat somebody alive/eat somebody for breakfast 6¦(use)¦ 7 eat humble pie … Dictionary of contemporary English
