eat one Idioma
beat one
beat one's brains out
eat one
Great One
great one for something
The Great One
break/eat one's word
A man who often breaks his word is one not to be trusted．一个常常食言的人是不可信赖的人。
Don't believe him；he always breaks his word．不要相信他，他总是食言。
eat one's word
A man who often breaks his word is one not to be trusted．一个常常食言的人是不可信赖的人。
Don't believe him；he always breaks his word．不要相信他，他总是食言。
eat one's words
Dick insisted the United States was larger than China but he had to eat his words when Beth showed him his map．狄克坚持说美国比中国大，但当贝思给他看地图时，他不得不收回他的话。
Don't boast too much．You will be forced to eat your words one day．不要吹得太厉害，总有一天你不得不收回你说的话。
seat oneself
He seated himself at the writing table，and began to write the arti cle．他在写字台前坐下，开始写文章。
They seated themselves upon a bench that stood by the lake．他们在湖畔的一条长凳上坐下。
eat one's heart out
Idiom(s): eat one's heart outTheme: ENVY
to be envious (of someone or something). (Informal.)
• Do you like my new watch? Well, eat your heart out. It was the last one in the store.
• Don't eat your heart out about my new car. Go get one of your own.
eat one's hat
Idiom(s): eat one's hatTheme: RESULTS
a phrase telling the kind of thing that one would do if a very unlikely event really happens. (Informal. Always used with an if-clause.)
• If we get there on time, I'll eat my hat.
• I'll eat my hat if you get a raise.
• He said he'd eat his hat if she got elected.
beat one's head against the wall
Idiom(s): beat one's head against the wall AND bang one's head against a brick wallTheme: FRUSTRATION
to waste one's time trying to accomplish something that is completely hopeless.
• You're wasting your time trying to fix up this house. You're just beating your head against the wall.
• You're banging your head against a brick wall trying to get that dog to behave properly.
eat one's cake and have it too
Idiom(s): have one's cake and eat it too AND eat one's cake and have it tooTheme: GREED
to enjoy both having something and using it up; to have it both ways. (Usually stated in the negative.)
• Tom wants to have his cake and eat it too. It can't be done.
• Don't buy a car if you want to walk and stay healthy. You can't eat your cake and have it too.
beat one to it|beat
v. phr. To arrive or get ahead of another person. I was about to call you, John, but you have beat me to it! Thanks for calling me.beat one's brains out|beat|beat one's brains|brain
v. phr., slang To try very hard to understand or think out something difficult; tire yourself out by thinking. It was too hard for him and he beat his brains out trying to get the answer. Some students are lazy, but others beat their brains and succeed.beat one's gums|beat|gums
v. phr., slang To engage in idle talk, or meaningless chatter; generally to talk too much. "Stop beating your gums, Jack," Joe cried. "I am falling asleep."Compare: CHEW THE FAT or CHEW THE RAG, SHOOT THE BREEZE or BAT THE BREEZE or FAN THE BREEZE or SHOOT THE BULL.
beat one's head against a wall|beat|head|wall
v. phr. To struggle uselessly against something that can't be beaten or helped; not succeed after trying very hard. Trying to make him change his mind is just beating your head against a wall.eat one out of house and home|eat|home|house|out o
v. phr. 1. To eat so much as to cause economic hardship. Our teenaged sons are so hungry all the time that they may soon eat us out of house and home. 2. To overstay one's welcome. We love Bob and Jane very much, but after two weeks we started to feel that they were eating us out of house and home.eat one's cake and have it too|cake|eat
v. phr. To use or spend something and still keep it; have both when you must choose one of two things. Often used in negative sentences. Roger can't make up his mind whether to go to college or get a job. You can't eat your cake and have it too. Mary wants to buy a beautiful dress she saw at the store, but she also wants to save her birthday money for camp. She wants to eat her cake and have it too.eat one's heart out|eat|heart
v. phr. To grieve long and hopelessly; to become thin and weak from sorrow. For months after her husband's death, Joanne simply ate her heart out. We sometimes hear of a dog eating its heart out for a dead owner.eat one's words|eat|swallow one's words|word|words
v. phr. To take back something you have said; admit something is not true. John had called Harry a coward, but the boys made him eat his words after Harry bravely fought a big bully.Compare: EAT CROW.
repeat oneself|repeat
v. phr. To say the same thing over again, often in the same words; repeat ideas because you forget what you said or because you want to stress their importance. Grandfather is forgetful and often repeats himself when he tells a story. A teacher often has to repeat herself several times before her pupils remember what she tells them.eat one's cake and have it, too
eat one's cake and have it, tooAlso, have one's cake and eat it, too. Have a dual benefit, consume something and still possess it, as in Doug was engaged to Ann and still dating Jane; he was trying to eat his cake and have it, too. This metaphoric expression is often put negatively, as it already was in John Heywood's proverb collection of 1546: “You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.”
repeat oneself
repeat oneselfExpress oneself in the same way or with the same words, as in Grandma forgets she has told us this story before and repeats herself over and over, or This architect tends to repeat himself—all his houses look alike. A well-known version of this idiom is the proverb History repeats itself, first recorded (in English) in 1561. For example, Her mother also married when she was 18—history repeats itself. [Mid-1800s]
eat (someone or something)
1. To pay the amount of something. If we beatific the amiss book to the printer, afresh we'll aloof accept to eat the amount of the fliers and alpha over again.2. To account one to worry. What's bistro you? Did article bad happen?3. vulgar slang To accomplish cunnilingus.Learn more: eateat it
1. rude slang An assertion by a apostle who is affronted or balked with addition else. Eat it, Ben! You cheated on me, remember?2. slang To abatement down, usually in an abnormally clumsy manner. Whoa, she absolutely ate it on the ice out there—is she OK?Learn more: eateat me
vulgar slang An announcement of acrimony and adjournment directed at addition who is acid or who one has antipathy for. Potentially offensive, as it can additionally be acclimated to accredit to articulate sex. Oh, eat me, will you? I debris to do annihilation you say!Learn more: eateat
1. tv. [for something] to bother or anguish someone. Nothing’s bistro me. I’m aloof the afraid type.
2. tv. to blot the amount or amount of something. We’ll eat the costs on this one. It’s the atomic we can do.
3. tv. to accomplish articulate sex on someone. (Usually objectionable.) She said she capital to eat me!
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