eat someone out of house and home

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner. idiomatic
    — [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.

词形变化

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

词源

Appears in The Second Shepherds' Play by The Wakefield Master (1400-1450), later used by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 (baptised) – 1616) in his play Henry IV, Part 2 (c. 1596–1599): see the quotation.
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