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eat out of someone's hand



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Idioms and Phrases

Be manipulated or dominated by another, be submissive, as in He had the press eating out of his hand . This metaphoric expression alludes to a tame animal eating out of one's hand. [Early 1900s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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

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