eat someone out of house and home

Eat so much as to deplete someone's resources, as in The kids are eating her out of house and home. This hyperbole was well known by the time Shakespeare used it (2 Henry IV, 2:1): "He hath eaten me out of house and home."

See also: and, eat, home, house, of, out

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mariko	mah-ṙee-ko	Japanese
Abital	AB-i-tal (English)	Biblical
Augustinus	-	Ancient Roman
Lan	-	Chinese, Vietnamese
Atuf	-	Arabic
Denis	de-NEE (French), DEN-is (English), DE-nis (German)	French, Russian, English, German, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Romanian, Croatian