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ate someone out of house and home

ate someone out of house and home is the simple past of eat someone out of house and home.

Meaning of eat someone out of house and home

Verb

eat someone out of house and home (third-person singular simple present eats someone out of house and home, present participle eating someone out of house and home, simple past ate someone out of house and home, past participle eaten someone out of house and home)

  1. (idiomatic) To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.
    • [H]e hath eaten me out of houſe and home, he hath put all my ſubſtance into that fat belly of his, but I will haue ſome of it out againe, or I will ride thee a nights like the mare.c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600...

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What is ate someone out of house and home the simple past of?
Ate someone out of house and home is the simple past of eat someone out of house and home.

Words near ate someone out of house and home in the dictionary

  1. ate out of the palm of someone's hand
  2. ate pussy
  3. ate shit
  4. ate someone alive
  5. ate someone for breakfast
  6. ate someone out of house and home
  7. ate someone's ass
  8. ate someone's dust
  9. ate someone's heart
  10. ate someone's lunch
  11. ate something up

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