词组 | eat someone out of house and home |
释义 | Idiom eat someone out of house and home Theme: EATING - MUCH to eat a lot of food (in someone's home); to eat all the food in the house. (Fixed order.)Billy has a huge appetite. He almost eats us out of house and home.When the kids come home from college, they always eat us out of house and home. Idiom eat someone 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 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 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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