Eat out of house and home
Twelve-year-old Varun has a huge appetite.
“You’ll eat me out of house and home,” laughed his father.
This idiom can be used both literally and figuratively, and means to ruin a person by eating or using up all he has.
Rohit’s constant demands for money provoked his father into saying, “You’ll eat me out of house and home.”
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