English

Verb

eat (someone) out of house and home

1. (idiomatic) To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II Scene I:

     He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all my substance

     into that fat belly of his: but I will have some of it out again,

     or I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.

Related terms

• out of house and home