eat someone's dust

eat (someone's) dust

To be outperformed or outrun by someone, usually by a very wide margin. The veteran runner was performing at the best of his career, and everyone else in the race ate his dust. We've been eating the competitor's dust since they released their new line of smartphones.

eat someone's dust

AMERICAN

If you eat someone's dust, you are a long way behind them in a race or a competitive situation. If you ignore new production methods, you will have to eat your competitors' dust.

eat someone's dust

fall far behind someone in a competitive situation. North American informal

1993 Fiddlehead She let everybody know she was moving on to True Love and they could eat her dust.

词组	eat someone's dust
释义	eat someone's dust eat (someone's) dust To be outperformed or outrun by someone, usually by a very wide margin. The veteran runner was performing at the best of his career, and everyone else in the race ate his dust. We've been eating the competitor's dust since they released their new line of smartphones. See also: dust, eat Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. eat someone's dust AMERICAN If you eat someone's dust, you are a long way behind them in a race or a competitive situation. If you ignore new production methods, you will have to eat your competitors' dust. See also: dust, eat Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. eat someone's dust fall far behind someone in a competitive situation. North American informal 1993 Fiddlehead She let everybody know she was moving on to True Love and they could eat her dust. See also: dust, eat Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: eat (someone's) dust be eating (one's) dust be eating (someone's) dust hand over the baton pass on the baton pass the baton baton hand on the baton front runner front-runner
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