eat out of the palm of someone's hand

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To obey, cooperate with, or believe with no resistance or hesitation; to be completely charmed by.
    — And there I worked with children because I had been a school teacher and children ate out of the palm of my hand.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, out of, palm, hand.
    — The interpreter said, "He says, 'give him salt'." They gave him a five-cent box of Morton's salt which he ate out of the palm of his hand.

词形变化

eats out of the palm of someone's hand present,singular,third-person eating out of the palm of someone's hand participle,present ate out of the palm of someone's hand past eaten out of the palm of someone's hand participle,past eat from the palm of someone's hand alternative

词源

A reference to the way an animal must be tamed before it will eat from someone's palm.
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