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verb to eat one out of house and home
  1. 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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