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eat sb alive [idiom]

[usually passive] (of insects, etc.) to bite somebody many times: I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes.

informal

نیش زدن - قورت دادن

Example:

I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

eat somebody alive/eat somebody for breakfast

to be very angry with someone or to defeat them completely:

You can't tell him that - he'll eat you alive!

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

eat somebody aˈlive (informal)
1 to criticize or punish somebody severely because you are extremely angry with them: He’ll eat you alive if he ever finds out.

2 to defeat somebody completely in an argument, a competition, etc: The defence lawyers are going to eat you alive tomorrow.

3 [usually passive] (of insects, etc.) to bite somebody many times: I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary 9th edition © Oxford University Press, 2015

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

eat sb alive

to criticize someone very angrily:

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

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
© Cambridge University Press 2013

American English

British English

biting - chewing and swallowing

B2 (Upper-intermediate)

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