eat shit

English[edit]

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

(slang, vulgar, of a person) To fall and land on one's face.
Synonym: faceplant
- 2009, Laura Thornhill, The Skateboarder's Journal - Lives on Board:
  Finally, for my 13th birthday, I got a skateboard — a Black Knight with those cool black urethane wheels. I cut my teeth on that board — and ate shit on it many, many times.
(slang, vulgar, of an object) To experience a catastrophic breakdown.
(slang, vulgar, humorous, of a person) To do something disgusting or strongly undesirable.
(slang, vulgar) To be soundly defeated.
When he started insulting people's mothers, the bouncer made him eat shit.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat,‎ shit.

(idiomatic, vulgar) An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party.
"I fucked your sister!" "Eat shit!"

expression of discontent or aggravation

Arabic: كُلْ خِرَاء m (kul ḵirāʔ), كُلِي خِرَاء f (kulī ḵirāʔ)
Hijazi Arabic: كل خرا m (kul ḵara), كلي خرا f (kulī ḵara)
French: va chier (fr)
German: scheiß auf dich
Italian: vai a cagare
Japanese: くそくらえ (kusokurae)
Portuguese: vai à merda
Romanian: du-te-n căcat
Russian: иди в жопу (idi v žopu)
Spanish: vete a la mierda
Swedish: dra åt helvete (sv), skit ner dig

Calque of Spanish comer mierda (“to waste time”) in the context of Cuban Spanish

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