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Grammar : Verb
Spell : eet
Phonetic Transcription : it

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Définition of eats out

Origin :
  • "food," in use mid-19c. in U.S., considered colloquial, but the same construction with the same meaning was present in Old English.
  • As in berate : verb criticize hatefully
  • As in dine : verb eat, often formally
Example sentences :
  • Though he comes in once in a while and eats out of the hand.
  • Extract from : « A Son Of The Sun » by Jack London
  • Why, honest, Reggie, even the Gumshoe just eats out of his hand.
  • Extract from : « Deering of Deal » by Latta Griswold
  • But take my word for it, it is so tame now that it eats out of your hand compared to what it once was.
  • Extract from : « Bert Wilson in the Rockies » by J. W. Duffield
  • And yet it would be no exaggeration to say that the average American, especially the average farmer, eats out of a frying-pan.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society » by Upton Sinclair
  • It eats out all the beauty, tenderness, and affection of domestic and social life.
  • Extract from : « Friends and Neighbors » by Anonymous
  • He eats out his own head, and his horses' too; he knows no grace but grace before meat, nor mortification but in fasting.
  • Extract from : « Character Writings of the 17th Century » by Various
  • He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil.
  • Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
  • He eats out of my hand in the afternoon and has one of his papers jump on me in the morning.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I » by Burton J. Hendrick
  • It eats out of one the very soul of truth, of love, and of faith.
  • Extract from : « Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again » by Joseph Barker
  • He knows the power of littles; that little by little consumes and eats out the vigor of the soul.
  • Extract from : « The Mind of Jesus » by John R. Macduff

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