| 释义 |
eat out of someone's hand, to eat out of someone's handFig. to do exactly as someone says; to grovel to someone. I've got her eating out of my hand. She'll do anything I ask. He will be eating out of your hand before you are finished with him.See also: eat, hand, of, outeat out of someone's handBe manipulated or dominated by another, be submissive, as in He had the press eating out of his hand. This metaphoric expression alludes to a tame animal eating out of one's hand. [Early 1900s] See also: eat, hand, of, out eat out of (someone's) hand To be manipulated or dominated by another.See also: eat, hand, of, outeat out of someone's hand, toTo be quite submissive. This expression, referring to a tame animal eating from a person’s hand, dates from the early twentieth century. “He’s like that,” wrote Joseph Conrad (Victory, 1915), “sometimes that familiar you might think he would eat out of your hand.”See also: eat, of, out |