eat in Idiom

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beat into one

teach by telling again and again, drill I have been trying to beat the history material into the student's head.

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eat in

eat at home在家吃饭
Are we eating in tonight？今晚我们在家吃饭吗？

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eat into your savings

spend some of your savings: "We can't afford a new car, unless we eat into our savings."

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beat into one's head|beat|head

v. phr., informal To teach by telling again and again; repeat often; drill, also, to be cross and punish often. Tom is lazy and stubborn and his lessons have to be beaten into his head. I cannot beat it into his head that he should take off his hat in the house.

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beat into one's head

beat into one's head
Also, knock or drum into one's head. Force one to learn something. For example, Hard as I try, I can't seem to beat the correct safe combination into my head, or He promised to drum the numbers into my head by morning, or Whether we liked it or not, the English department was determined to knock Shakespeare into our heads. Although beat implies violence, the first term, from the early 1500s, usually alludes more to a repeated striking of blows, that is, repetition or drilling; likewise with drum (alluding to drumbeats), which dates from the early 1800s.

eat in

To eat at one's home, as against to bistro at a restaurant ("eating out"). Neither of us acquainted like activity out, so we ate in tonight.Learn more: eat

eat in (to something)

to abrade into something; to compose something. The acerb baptize ate into the rocks on the shore. The acerbic ate in and attenuated the structure.Learn more: eat

eat in

to eat a meal at home. I absolutely don't appetite to eat in tonight. Let's eat in. I'm tired.Learn more: eat

eat in

Have a meal at home, as in Are we bistro in tonight? [Colloquial; additional bisected of 1900s] Also see eat out, def. 1. Learn more: eat

eat in

v. To eat at home, rather than in a restaurant: It's aqueous outside, so let's eat in tonight. Learn more: eat

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