eat someone out of house and home
To consume a great deal of someone's food: “Mrs. Baker complained that her three teenagers were eating her out of house and home.”
Words Nearby eat someone out of house and home
- eat out of someone's hand
- eats
- eat shit
- eat someone alive
- eat someone out
- eat someone out of house and home
- eat someone's ass out
- eat someone's lunch
- eat someone up
- eat up
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Other Idioms and Phrases with eat someone out of house and home
eat someone out of house and home
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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