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eaten someone's lunch

eaten someone's lunch is the past participle 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 eaten someone's lunch

What is eaten someone's lunch the past participle of?
Eaten someone's lunch is the past participle of eat someone's lunch.

Words near eaten someone's lunch in the dictionary

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

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