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ate someone's lunch

ate someone's lunch is the simple past of eat someone's lunch.

Meaning of eat someone's lunch

Verb

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

  1. (US, idiomatic, slang) To best or defeat someone thoroughly; to make short work of.
    • So in a classic it-ain't-broke-so-let's-fix-it-anyway move, some of our managers and salespeople began complaining that it wasn't written for Windows. […] If we didn't rewrite for Windows, they insisted, our competitors would eat our lunch!2006 October 2, “A Disastrous ‘Upgrade’: My Boss Insisted that Creating a Windows Version of Our DOS App would Ensure Our Future”, in Steve Fox, editor, InfoWorld, volume 28, number 40, San...
    Synonyms:
    eat someone for breakfast, have someone for breakfast, beat, bring down, convince, chew up, flog, humble, kick ass, malavogue

Questions about ate someone's lunch

What is ate someone's lunch the simple past of?
Ate someone's lunch is the simple past of eat someone's lunch.

Words near ate someone's lunch in the dictionary

  1. ate someone for breakfast
  2. ate someone out of house and home
  3. ate someone's ass
  4. ate someone's dust
  5. ate someone's heart
  6. ate someone's lunch
  7. ate something up
  8. ate something up with a spoon
  9. ate the baby
  10. ate the bread of idleness
  11. ate the leek

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