eat someone for breakfast
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Verb
[edit]eat someone for breakfast (third-person singular simple present eats someone for breakfast, present participle eating someone for breakfast, simple past ate someone for breakfast, past participle eaten someone for breakfast)
- (slang, figuratively) To beat easily; to trounce.
- Synonyms: eat someone's lunch; see also Thesaurus:defeat
- Worried? Nah, I eat punks like you for breakfast.
- If you slip up, they're going to eat you for breakfast.
- 2023 April 5, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, spoken by Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy):
- This guy's a lunatic, a psycho. He will eat you for breakfast. He won't even notice it probably, cause you're very, very, small.
Further reading
[edit]- “to eat (also have) (a person or thing) for breakfast, phrase” under “breakfast, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, February 2024.