eat someone out of house and homeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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eat someone out of house and home (三人称単数 現在形 eats someone out of house かつ home, 現在分詞 eating someone out of house かつ home, 過去形 ate someone out of house かつ home, 過去分詞 eaten someone out of house かつ home)

1. (idiomatic) To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     [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.

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