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2 (also have/eat somebody for ˈbreakfast) defeat somebody completely in an argument, a competition, etc:
The defence lawyers are going to eat you alive tomorrow. ♢ The union leader eats managers for breakfast!
3 (usually used in the passive) (of insects, etc.) bite somebody many times: I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes.See also:
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Casino game with best odds of winning. If you're serious I will be waiting! Girl wants to be eaten (Cannibalism). I want with all my being to be butchered alive and tortured and offered as a.
- Discovery Channel's 'Eaten Alive' special, which promised a man would be eaten by a snake, outraged many viewers.
- Yes, to me it is. I never wanted to die of natural causes like disease or old age, and was totally not gonna die from something that had to do with humans, like fall off the stairs and break my neck, or murdered by someone of my own kind.
- “I want to be eaten alive. I want to feel wanted.” ― Elisabeth Hewer, Wishing for Birds. Tags: poetry, wanting. Read more quotes from Elisabeth Hewer. Share this quote: Like Quote. Recommend to friends. Friends Who Liked This Quote. To see what your.
- You put yourself in sexual relationships where you feel comfortable clearly communicating your desires to a partner. In other words, getting your wants and needs met when it comes to any kind of sex isn't about pointing your bottom at whatever the right angle is for a partner to somehow psychically intuit what you want: getting your wants and needs met starts with clearly VOICING those wants.
eat (one) alive
1. To bite one excessively, as of insects. If you're out here at dusk, the mosquitos will eat you alive.
2. To overwhelm and/or easily defeat one due to being more aggressive, powerful, etc. Our team isn't very good, and I'm worried that the competition at this level will eat us alive.Lena is so meek, I worry about her moving to the city. They're going to eat her alive.
3. To criticize one harshly. The teacher will eat you alive if you come in without your homework again today.
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4. To cause one significant physical or emotional pain. Even though it's been a while, I think memories of that accident are still eating him alive.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
eat someone alive
Overwhelm or defeat someone thoroughly, make short work of someone. For example, Lacking experience in manufacturing, he was eaten alive by his competitors. This slangy hyperbole dates from the early 1900s. A newer slangy variant is eat someone's lunch, dating from the mid-1900s. For example, It was a decisive victory; he ate the incumbent's lunch.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
eat someone alive
1. If you say that someone or something will eat you alive, you mean that they will seriously harm or criticize you. If a president does not introduce new measures, he's going to be eaten alive by Wall Street.He was certain Sid would be eaten alive by the hardened criminals at the jail.
2. If something such as an illness or a problem is eating you alive, it is causing you great pain or distress. The pain ate him alive; the world was nothing but fire and pain.I know and she knows that the nursing home is the only solution. But it is eating me alive.
3. If you are eaten alive by insects, you are repeatedly bitten by them. We've been sleeping on the floor; we have no water. It's been easily 100, 125 degrees. We've been eaten alive by bugs.`Can we go out?' — `Outside? The mosquitoes will eat us alive.'
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
eat someone alive
1 (of insects) bite someone many times. 2 exploit someone's weakness ruthlessly. informalFarlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
eat somebody aˈlive
Eat Or Be Eaten
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Do You Want To Be Eaten Alive Meme
(also have/eat somebody for ˈbreakfast) criticize or punish somebody severely because you are extremely angry with them2 (also have/eat somebody for ˈbreakfast) defeat somebody completely in an argument, a competition, etc:
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3 (usually used in the passive) (of insects, etc.) bite somebody many times: I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes.
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
eat (someone) alive
Slang To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly: an inexperienced manager who was eaten alive in a competitive corporate environment.
Food Ready To Be Eaten
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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