eat for breakfast

eat for breakfast

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Verb

eat for breakfast (third-person singular simple present eats for breakfast, present participle eating for breakfast, simple past ate for breakfast, past participle eaten for breakfast)

1. (slang, figuratively) Utterly destroy.

   If you slip up, they're going to eat you for breakfast.

   • 2009, Phil Edmonston, Lemon-Aid Used Cars and Trucks 2009-2010, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 115:

     A low-quality, fuel-thirsty small car that improved a bit during its last three years on the market. 1999 and earlier models eat engine head gaskets for breakfast and wallets for lunch.

2. (slang) Overcome easily, routinely, and without distress.

   Worried? Nah, I eat punks like you for breakfast.

Alternative forms

• eat for lunch