have (someone or something) for breakfast

To defeat, complete, or handle someone or something easily. Often used as part of a boast. He can challenge me all he wants—I'm not worried! I have chumps like him for breakfast! If anyone can write a term paper in one night, it's Rich—he has assignments like that for breakfast!

have someone for breakfast

Fig. to defeat someone with ease. Careful, she'll have you for breakfast if you're not prepared to debate her. I'm afraid they had our team for breakfast again.

have someone for breakfast

eat someone for breakfast

INFORMAL

If you say that one person will have another person for breakfast or eat them for breakfast, you mean that the first person is much stronger and more aggressive than the second. He thinks he's tough, but Jane Wooton will have him for breakfast. He was a kid thrown into a town where the miners could have eaten him for breakfast.

have someone for breakfast

deal with or defeat someone with contemptuous ease. informal

词组	have (someone or something) for breakfast
释义	have (someone or something) for breakfast have (someone or something) for breakfast To defeat, complete, or handle someone or something easily. Often used as part of a boast. He can challenge me all he wants—I'm not worried! I have chumps like him for breakfast! If anyone can write a term paper in one night, it's Rich—he has assignments like that for breakfast! See also: breakfast, have Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. have someone for breakfast Fig. to defeat someone with ease. Careful, she'll have you for breakfast if you're not prepared to debate her. I'm afraid they had our team for breakfast again. See also: breakfast, have McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. have someone for breakfast or eat someone for breakfast INFORMAL If you say that one person will have another person for breakfast or eat them for breakfast, you mean that the first person is much stronger and more aggressive than the second. He thinks he's tough, but Jane Wooton will have him for breakfast. He was a kid thrown into a town where the miners could have eaten him for breakfast. See also: breakfast, have, someone Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. have someone for breakfast deal with or defeat someone with contemptuous ease. informal See also: breakfast, have, someone Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: have for breakfast have someone for breakfast eat (something or someone) for breakfast (one) will have (someone or something) for breakfast will eat for breakfast (one) will eat (someone or something) for breakfast brag brag about brag about (someone or something) get a handle on something, to
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