eat+dirt

  • 21Dirt — A dirty baking plate This article is about unclean matter. For other uses, see Dirt (disambiguation). Dirty redirects here. For other uses, see Dirty (disambiguation). Dirt is unclean matter, especially when in contact with a person s clothes,… …

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  • 22dirt pill — n. A pill containing several strains of bacteria designed to stimulate the immune systems of allergic or asthmatic children. Example Citations: Growing up in rural 1950s Ontario, we ate dirt. Most of us were poor, but all of us had food of some… …

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  • 23dirt — /dɜt / (say dert) noun 1. earth or soil, especially when loose. 2. any foul or filthy substance, as excrement, mud, etc. 3. something vile, mean, or worthless. 4. moral filth; vileness. 5. abusive or scurrilous language. 6. unsavoury or malicious …

  • 24dirt — n. 1 unclean matter that soils. 2 a earth, soil. b earth, cinders, etc., used to make a surface for a road etc. (usu. attrib. : dirt track; dirt road). 3 foul or malicious words or talk. 4 excrement. 5 a dirty condition. 6 a person or thing… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 25dirt — See: EAT DIRT, HIT THE DIRT, PAY DIRT …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 26dirt — See: EAT DIRT, HIT THE DIRT, PAY DIRT …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 27dirt — See: eat dirt, hit the dirt, pay dirt …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 28dirt — noun 1》 a substance, such as mud, that is regarded as dirty.     ↘informal excrement: dog dirt. 2》 loose soil or earth. 3》 informal scandalous or sordid information. Phrases eat dirt informal suffer insults or humiliation. Origin ME: from ON drit …

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  • 29eat crow — Synonyms and related words: abjure, back down, back out, backwater, climb down, crawfish out, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, eat dirt, eat humble pie, forswear, kiss the rod, lick the dust, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke,… …

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  • 30eat stale dog —    American    to take a deserved reprimand    I think this is analogous to eat dirt, with dog being a shortened form of dog shit:     I can eat stale dog and get by. (Chandler, 1939 he had been detected in wrongdoing) …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms