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📖 Определения и значения для слова eat

📒 to put food in your mouth, bite it and swallow it

  • I was too nervous to eat.
  • to eat well/healthily
  • She doesn't eat properly (= doesn't eat food that is good for her).

📒 to have a meal

  • Where shall we eat tonight?
  • We ate at a pizzeria.
  • I never eat in the school cafeteria.

📒 a situation in business, politics, etc. where there is a lot of competition and people are willing to harm each other in order to succeed

  • I'm afraid in this line of work it's a case of dog eat dog.
  • We're operating in a dog-eat-dog world.

📒 to criticize or punish somebody severely because you are extremely angry with them

  • He’ll eat you alive if he ever finds out.

📒 to defeat somebody completely in an argument, a competition, etc.

  • The defence lawyers are going to eat you alive tomorrow.

📒 to bite somebody many times

  • I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes.

📒 to accept bad treatment and being made to feel small or stupid

  • Her mother ate dirt in poorly-paid jobs just so the family could stay in the country.

📒 said to encourage somebody to enjoy life now, while they can, and not to think of the future

📒 used to compare two things and say that one of them is better

  • Look at him dance! Eat your heart out, Fred Astaire (= he dances even better than Fred Astaire).

📒 to feel very unhappy, especially because you want somebody/something you cannot have

  • I’m not going to mope at home, eating my heart out for some man.

📒 to say and show that you are sorry for a mistake that you made

📒 to eat a lot

  • She may be thin, but she eats like a horse.

📒 to trust somebody and be willing to do what they say

  • She'll have them eating out of her hand in no time.

📒 to eat a lot of somebody else’s food

  • How much longer is he staying? He’s eating us out of house and home.

📒 to admit that what you said was wrong

  • When he told her she would fail, she swore she would make him eat his words.

📒 to have the advantages of something without its disadvantages; to have both things that are available

📒 used to say that you are very hungry

📒 used to say that you think something is very unlikely to happen

  • If she's here on time, I'll eat my hat!

📒 very pleased with yourself

  • She looked like a cat that’s swallowed the canary. She was almost purring with pleasure.

📒 used to ask what somebody is annoyed or worried about

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