| 词汇 | eat you out of house and home |
| 释义 | (redirected from eat you 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 homeEat 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." eat someone out of house and homemainly BRITISHIf someone eats you out of house and home, they eat so much food that it costs you a lot of money to feed them. My children are eating me out of house and home! They eat everybody out of house and home but nobody minds because they provide such first-rate entertainment. Note: This expression was used in Shakespeare's play `Henry IV Part II', act 2 scene 1 (1597). When asked why she wants her lodger Sir John Falstaff arrested, the landlady Mistress Quickly replies: `He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of his.' eat someone out of house and homeeat a lot of someone else's food. informaleat somebody out of ˌhouse and ˈhome(informal, often humorous) eat all the food that somebody has: She eats us out of house and home every time she comes to stay. |
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