eat someone's heart
English
Verb
eat someone's heart (third-person singular simple present eats someone's heart, present participle eating someone's heart, simple past and past participle ate someone's heart)
- To destroy and humiliate someone.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing:
- O God! that I were a man. I would eat his heart in the marketplace.
- 2011, Howard Fast, Moses: The Epic Story of His Rebellion in the Court of Egypt:
- “And now you sit like a maggot in my flesh, waiting only to eat my heart.”
- 2015, Adam Lewis Schroeder, All-Day Breakfast:
- “I threw down with my brother,” said Clint. “And I utterly kicked his ass, and he's on the college wrestling team. He was crying at the bottom of the stairs, and I was, like, 'I will eat your heart, man, I will totally eat your heart.'
See also
eat one's heart out
Anagrams
- ate someone's heart