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eat out of someone's hand
eat out of someone's hand
eat out of someone's hand
Be manipulated or dominated by another, be submissive, as in
He had the press eating out of his hand
. This metaphoric expression alludes to a tame animal eating out of one's hand. [Early 1900s]
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eat
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hand
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of
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out
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Name
Gender
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Xue
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Chinese
Elfrieda
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English
HelĒNa
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Latvian
Gopal
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Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Nepali
Cionaodh
KIN-eech
Irish
Si-Woo
shee-oo
Korean
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