eating someone's lunch
eating someone's lunch is the present participle and gerund 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)
- 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 eating someone's lunch
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- Eating someone's lunch is the present participle and gerund of eat someone's lunch.
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