EAT SOMEONE OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME Definition & Meaning

eat someone out of house and home

To consume a great deal of someone's food: 鈥淢rs. Baker complained that her three teenagers were eating her out of house and home.鈥�

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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): 鈥淗e hath eaten me out of house and home.鈥�

Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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