英语词汇“eat dirt”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A quarryman's term for a layer representing an old soil, esp in the Purbeck group

Personal problems or grievances (esp in the phrase wash one's dirty linen in public to discuss private matters publicly)

A man whose sexual aspirations and actions are considered appropriate only to a younger man

A conflict in which international conventions regarding the humane treatment of prisoners, civilians, etc are ignored

A weekend containing much sexual activity, esp away from home and with someone other than one's usual partner

eat dirt

To acquiesce submissively in a humiliation

throw dirt

To besmirch a reputation

eat /ēt/

transitive verb (eatˈing; ate /et or āt/; eaten /ēˈtən/ or obsolete eat /et/)

To take into the body by the mouth as food
To bite, chew or swallow
To include or tolerate in one's diet
To consume (often with up)
To corrode or destroy (often with away)
To upset, irritate or worry (informal)

intransitive verb

To take food
To take a meal, eg at a stated time
To make inroads, make a hole or gnaw (with into or through)
To be eatable, to taste

noun (archaic in sing, informal in pl)

Food

ORIGIN: OE etan; cf Ger essen, ON eta, L edere and Gr edein

eatˈable adjective

Edible or fit to be eaten

noun (informal; esp in pl)

Anything used as food

eatˈage noun

Grass or fodder for horses, etc
The right to eat

eatˈer noun

Someone who or something which eats or corrodes
A variety of fruit, vegetable, etc suitable for eating uncooked

eatˈery noun (informal, esp N American)

A restaurant (also eatˈerie)

eatˈing noun and adjective

eating apple, etc noun

One suitable for eating uncooked

eatˈing-house noun

A restaurant

eating irons plural noun (slang)

Knife, fork and spoon

eat away

To destroy gradually
To gnaw

eat crow, dirt or humble pie see under crow , dirt, humbles

eat in

Of acid, to corrode, etch, etc (a metal)
To eat at home

eating out of one's hand

Completely under one's control

eat into

Of acid, to corrode, etc
To consume, use up or make inroads into

eat off

To clear (a crop) by setting cattle to eat it

eat one's hat

To be very surprised (if something turns out contrary to one's expectations)

eat one's head off

(esp of an animal) to cost more for food than one is worth

eat one's heart out

To pine away, brooding over misfortune

eat one's terms (law)

To study for the bar, with allusion to the number of times in a term that a student must dine in the hall of an Inn of Court

eat one's words

To take back what one has said

eat out

To have a meal away from home, usu in a restaurant
To eat everything edible in (a place)
To encroach upon

eat the air (Shakespeare)

To be deluded with hopes

eat up

To finish one's food
To devour entirely
To consume or absorb
(esp in passive) to obsess or preoccupy wholly

what's eating you? (informal)

What is worrying or irritating you?

dirt /dûrt/

eat /ēt/