eat off

eat something off (of) something

and eat something off

to erode something off a larger part. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) The acidic rain ate the finish off the steeple. The acid ate off the finish.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Brigita	-	Slovene, Croatian, Latvian
Nadeem	-	Arabic, Urdu
MarÍA	mah-REE-ah (Spanish)	Spanish, Galician, Icelandic
Valora	vah-LO-rah	Esperanto
Elsje	-	Dutch
Etelka	-	Hungarian