释义 |
eat someone out of house and home informal Eat a lot of someone else’s food: he would eat them out of house and home if he continued to run through biscuits at his present rate...- This will help solve the problem of what to eat for lunch but will protect the employer from having workers eat him out of house and home, since the charge for food will both reduce consumption and also provide income.
- Then there comes a time when the children grow into teenagers and you think that will eat you out of house and home, but there is light of the end of the tunnel!
- They ate us out of house and home, we have no hamburgers left and we ran out of cheese and onion rolls, but we're famous for that.
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