| 单词 | eat someone out of house and home |
| 释义 | Idioms and Phrases with eat someone out of house and homeeat someone out of house and home Eat so much as to deplete someone's resources, as in The kids are eating her out of house and home. This hyperbole was well known by the time Shakespeare used it (2 Henry IV, 2:1): “He hath eaten me out of house and home.” The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. eat someone out of house and homeTo consume a great deal of someone's food: “Mrs. Baker complained that her three teenagers were eating her out of house and home.” Words nearby eat someone out of house and homeeat out of someone's hand, eats, eat shit, eat someone alive, eat someone out, eat someone out of house and home, eat someone's ass out, eat someone's lunch, eat someone up, eat up, EAU The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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