单词 | to eat one's own dog food |
释义 | > as lemmasto eat one's own dog food P2. slang (chiefly Computing). to eat one's own dog food: (of a company or its staff) to use one own's product or service. Esp. in negative or conditional contexts implying that the product or service is of poor quality. ΚΠ 1993 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 May a1/6 Mr. Cutler insists that a new build, or test version, of NT be stitched together electronically each morning so that his programmers can, as he puts it, ‘eat their own dog food’. 1998 InfoWorld 28 Aug. 85/3 I guess somebody at IBM doesn't want to eat their own dog food. 2004 Financial Times 13 Oct. 6/7 If BT had to eat its own dog food you can bet wholesale line rental would look quite good today. < as lemmas |
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