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Dictionary of Idioms/Phrasal Verbs

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eat someone out of house and home

1. to eat everything that someone has in the house; to consume more than one can easily provide or afford

1. The entire football team came over and ate poor Sally out of house and home.

2. That huge dog is eating us out of house and home.

3. She is eating me out of house and home and using up my hot water.

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