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verb to eat one out of house and home
- To consume such a portion of one's store of food that little is left for the owner.
- (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-2), Act II Scene I
- :He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all my substance
- :into that fat belly of his: but I will have some of it out again,
- :or I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.
Etymology: From Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2
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