English Dictionary

eat someone out of house and home

動詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.

日本語の意味

誰かの備蓄してある食料を使い果たし、残りがほとんどなくなるほど食べること。 / 他人の家の食料を無尽蔵に消費し、所有者が困窮する状態にすること。

Whenever the whole soccer team stays with us for a weekend, they eat someone out of house and home, and I'm left restocking the pantry constantly.

サッカーチーム全員が週末に泊まりに来ると、彼らはホストの食料を大量に消費してほとんど残さないので、私は何度も食料を買い足すことになります。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.

[H]e hath eaten me out of houſe and home, he hath put all my ſubſtance into that fat belly of his, but I will haue ſome of it out againe, or I will ride thee a nights like the mare.

eats someone out of house and home （ present singular third-person ）

eating someone out of house and home （ participle present ）

ate someone out of house and home （ past ）

eaten someone out of house and home （ participle past ）