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eat someone out of house and home

  1. To consume a great deal of someone's food: “Mrs. Baker complained that her three teenagers were eating her out of house and home.”


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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): “He hath eaten me out of house and home.”

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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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