单词 | to eat out |
释义 | > as lemmasto eat out to eat out 1. = to bite out. ΚΠ 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. 267 I suppose I ought to eat my tongue out, before I should say such a thing. 2. To exhaust eatables or pasture in (a place). ΚΠ 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. xi. 156 But, in the mean while, he is eating out these Bohemian vicinages. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Mar. 6/1 Wyoming is a natural grazing country..and to suppose that it can be ‘eaten out’ in ten years or a generation is to suppose an impossibility. 3. To destroy as a parasite or a corrosive. Also figurative, esp. in phrases with heart. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > corrode or erode forfret?c1225 fret?c1225 gnaw1530 to eat awaya1538 eat1555 arrode1575 corrode1594 out-eatc1595 eat1609 erode1612 to eat out1616 bite1623 etch1664 exede1669 cancer1824 to eat in- 1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 589 Goe not from the church, to eate out & to eate vp one another in the market, by fraud & cruelty. 1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul xi. 15 Yet when we have all done, time eates us out at the last. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xiii. §103 Yvie clambering over trees, eateth them out. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 74 A little of the said oyl..presently eats out the Colour. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 146 The cheapness of these Threds will eat out the very Spinning in most parts of England. 1886 G. T. Stokes Ireland & Celtic Church xi. 212 Image worship..which had largely eaten out the heart of religion among them. 1890 Rev. of Reviews 2 323/1 General Boulanger is not eating out his heart in vain regrets. 1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister xviii. 155 Why, there's poor Aikone..eating his heart out and getting no further. 1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. 70 Commonsense says that it is better..‘to let off steam’ than to ‘eat your heart out’. 4. To encroach upon (space, formerly also time) belonging to something else. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > move beyond > encroach physically winc1440 encroach1578 usurp1635 to usurp on or upona1658 to eat outa1716 infringe1769 a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 67 No..Business of State ate out his times of Attendance in the Church. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. iv. 197 A certain handsome room..on the ground floor, eating out a backyard. 5. Mining. (See quot. 1849.) ΚΠ 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 25 Eat out, this expression is applied when a level coal drift is turned to the dip, in order to take advantage of (or ‘eat out’) a rise hitch. 6. intransitive. To take a meal elsewhere than at one's residence. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > eat in specific conditions [verb (intransitive)] > dine out to dine fortha1616 to dine out1741 to eat out1933 1933 Maclean's Aug. 35/1 They had planned to ‘eat out’, but presently Norma's chances of being ‘discovered’ in some smart café became completely nil. 1945 ‘L. Lewis’ Birthday Murder (1951) iv. 47 Why don't we eat out tonight?. 1954 R. Macaulay Let. 8 July (1962) 159 Women..stay at home while the men eat out in cafés and restaurants. < as lemmas |
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