| 词汇 | eat out of house and home |
| 释义 | Idiom eat out of house and homeeat (someone) out of house and home humorous to eat most of the food that someone has in their house.The boys have only been back two days and they've already eaten me out of house and home. eat (one) out of house and homeTo eat large quantities of one's food. This phrase is usually used hyperbolically. Kim may be tiny, but she has a big appetite, so don't be surprised if she eats you out of house and home. eat someone out of house and homeFig. to eat everything that someone has in the house. That huge dog is eating us out of house and home. The entire football team came over and ate poor Sally out of house and home. eat someone out of house and home, toTo consume a great deal. This expression is at least two thousand years old. It appeared in the Alexandrian philosopher Philo’s De Agricultura (ca. a.d. 40) as well as in numerous English writings, before Shakespeare used it for Mistress Quickly’s description of the gluttonous Falstaff: “He hath eaten me out of house and home” (Henry IV, Part 2, 2.1). |
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