دیکشنری آنلاین تحلیلگران ( معنی فارسی eat alive )

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English Dictionary

eat (someone) alive
To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly

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Idioms

eat alive
eat (someone) alive
to criticize someone very angrily.

If we get our facts wrong we'll be eaten alive by the press.

eat (you) alive
1.
to cause you to suffer.

Without my own lawyer, the defendants' lawyers would have eaten me alive in court.

The state income tax is just eating me alive, so I think I may move.

2.
to bite you repeatedly.

The only bad thing about camping by the river was the mosquitoes that ate us alive.

Usage notes: used only of insects, as in the example

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲

eat someone alive
eat (someone) alive
to criticize someone very angrily.

If we get our facts wrong we'll be eaten alive by the press.

eat (you) alive
1.
to cause you to suffer.

Without my own lawyer, the defendants' lawyers would have eaten me alive in court.

The state income tax is just eating me alive, so I think I may move.

2.
to bite you repeatedly.

The only bad thing about camping by the river was the mosquitoes that ate us alive.

Usage notes: used only of insects, as in the example

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲