| 单词 | to eat the ground bare |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat the ground bare a. with object followed by complement indicating result: To affect in a certain way by eating: e.g. to eat oneself sick, into a sickness; to eat (a person) out of house and home (i.e. to ruin him by eating up his resources); of animals: to eat the ground bare. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4574 In þat medu sa lang þai war þat etten þai had it erthe bare. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 75 Al I haue, he hath eaten me out of house and home. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses v. 21 John's Family was like to be Eat out of House and Home. 1807 A. M. Porter Hungarian Brothers I. v. 127 You would not deny me my dinner, because I might eat myself into an apoplexy. 1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds iv. 54 They would soon eat us out of house and home. < as lemmas |
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