| 词组 | eat up |
| 释义 | eat up 1. eat up • eat up sth • eat sth up to eat all of something: ▪ There's some bacon in the fridge that needs eating up. ▪ In parts of Binh Dinh province, huge rats were eating up the crops. eat up! spoken (=used to tell a child to eat all of his or her food) ▪ Come on, Kaylee, eat up! 2. eat up sth • eat sth up to use a lot of something, such as money or time, especially so that there is none left: ▪ My car broke down last month, and the repairs ate up all my savings. ▪ The job ate up most of his time, including weekends and holidays. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑use up 3. eat up sb • eat sb up if unhappy thoughts or feelings eat you up, they make you feel very upset, angry etc and you cannot think of anything else: ▪ It just eats me up how those kids are totally ignored by their parents. ▪ Angel lay on his bed, eaten up by jealousy - by the thought that Luke was going out with Maria. eat sb up inside ▪ He may be a free man, but if he did kill his wife, it's going to eat him up inside. 4. eat sth up • eat up sth AmE informal to be excited about something and enjoy it very much: ▪ Maybe we should put out an investigative news program - audiences eat that stuff up. ▪ Vickroy uses games to teach little kids how to get fit, and the kids eat it up. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑lap up |
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