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ate one's Wheaties

ate one's Wheaties is the simple past of eat one's Wheaties.

Meaning of eat one's Wheaties

Verb

eat one's Wheaties (third-person singular simple present eats one's Wheaties, present participle eating one's Wheaties, simple past ate one's Wheaties, past participle eaten one's Wheaties)

  1. (Canada, US, idiomatic) To prepare or fortify oneself for an activity requiring exertion.
    • But he just couldn't get the ball through the goal posts (poor Harry . . . he didn't eat his Wheaties, or else his shoe was on backwards).1971 October 19, Haney Reilly, “Another game, another loss but Hawkeyes looked better”, in Telegraph-Herald, Iowa, USA, retrieved 01 Jul 2011, page 17

Questions about ate one's Wheaties

What is ate one's Wheaties the simple past of?
Ate one's Wheaties is the simple past of eat one's Wheaties.

Words near ate one's Wheaties in the dictionary

  1. ate one's own
  2. ate one's own dog food
  3. ate one's pride
  4. ate one's seed corn
  5. ate one's terms
  6. ate one's Wheaties
  7. ate one's words
  8. ate one's young
  9. ate out
  10. ate out of someone's hand
  11. ate out of the palm of someone's hand

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