| 释义 |
idiombreakfasthave/eat sb for breakfastbeat/defeat control to defeat someone easily in business, a fight, an argument etc:The great players of yesterday would have had someone like Vinny for breakfast!My concern was that American management was so devoted to the short-term that unless we were careful, the Japanese would wake up one day and have us all for breakfast.make a dog's breakfast/dinner (out) of sth BrEBrEto do something very badly, so that the result is embarrassing or not at all useful:Frankly, they made a dog's breakfast out of the management training course.Whoever worked on this house before has made a real dog's dinner out of the plumbing. —see also be dressed up like a dog's dinner
See:- (if you) sing before breakfast, (you'll) cry before night
- (if you) sing before breakfast, (you'll) cry before supper
- a dog's breakfast
- a dog's breakfast/dinner
- bed and breakfast
- bed-and-breakfast
- breakfast of champions
- donkey’s breakfast
- donkey's breakfast
- eat (something or someone) for breakfast
- fix (something) for breakfast/lunch/dinner/etc.
- from hell to breakfast
- have (someone or something) for breakfast
- have for breakfast
- have someone for breakfast
- hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper
- like a dog's breakfast
- make a dog's breakfast (of something)
- Mexican breakfast
- out to (some meal)
- power lunch/breakfast
- scattered from here to breakfast
- shoot (one's) breakfast
- shoot cookies
- shoot one’s breakfast
- shoot one’s cookies
- sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night
- stay to (something)
- will eat for breakfast
|