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Jimmy Hung
2019-10-01 12:10
Eat (one) out of house and home phrase hyperbole informal
To eat a lot of food when being a guest or living at someone’s house
My mom was super happy when my friends ate us out of house and home.
She has 5 cats that eat her out of house and home.
My grandson came over at the weekend and ate me out of house and home.
To eat too much
If something such as food, drink, or medicine go (right) through (one) like a dose of salts, it is rapidly excreted without being digested.
1. Said when someone has taken more food than he or she is capable of eating
2. Said when he or she has taken more tasks than he or she is capable of handling
The verb "eat" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This is one of the phrases that, while having been long attributed to Shakespeare, was in fact used earlier by others. There is a definition of the expression in Thomas Cooper's glossary Thesaurus Linguae Romanae Britannicae, 1578: “To eate out of house and home: to waste and consume his substance, money etc.”
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