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idiombe eating sb's dust AmEAmEbeat/defeat to be much less successful in a competition, sport, or business than someone you are competing against:Yet again Rangers have ended the season eating Celtic's dust. For too long, American manufacturers were eating the dust of foreign competitors, who were getting higher quality, more attractively priced products to customers.Note This idiom comes from the idea that when one car is beating another in a race, the second driver is forced to drive in the clouds of dust that are pushed into the air by the first car.
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