Eat : v. tr. Eat, it is swallowing to eat (a solid or consistent food) after chewing.
- Eat a lot or abundantly: Guzzling, eating (to death), stuffing oneself, stuffing one's tonsils/lips/kids/ribs/cheeks, stuffing oneself, stuffing oneself, blowing one's belly; stuff one's cabbage/belly, stuff oneself up to that point, don't give a damn about it, don't throw it away, put it behind your tie, put it up to your chin, up to there, don't throw it away fill the gun, fill the lamp, fill the belly, stuff oneself, rant, morph, take/get a good belly, fill the belly/the buffet, beat the cabbage, beat the bell, eat like four, like an ogre.
Eating like a fool: being greedy.
Get involved.
Fripper (or friper): to eat greedily.
Eat until your peritoneum bursts: eat greedily.
Put something on your conscience: eat a lot.
Eat like an ogre: eat a lot, greedily.
Eating like a canker: eating excessively
Eating dry: meals without wine, without alcohol.
To gorge: eat a lot; to get tipsy
Sound it: eat well, dine well.
Treat or treat your pig: eat a lot; live well, enjoy yourself; offer to drink.
Eat like a wolf: eat voraciously
Eat like six.
Eating dry: meals without wine, without alcohol.
Eat like a pope.
Hit your head: eat well, get drunk, eat a lot.
Get stuck into it.
Don't give a damn.
Don't give a damn about it.
Poke your gums.
Don't care even behind the tie.
Eat like a canker.
To make your stomach explode; eat until your stomach bursts.
Don't care until then.
Eat like four: eat a lot, a lot, in large quantities.
Morph: eat a lot.
Rebuild your body: eat well.
Stock the bench: eat well
Stun: eat a lot.
- Eat little or nothing: Eating without appetite, like a bird, with the tips of your teeth. Nibble, nibble, peck, peck. Do without eating. Deprive yourself of eating
Toil away: eat nothing, fast.
Dinner from a toothpick: Do not eat, fast.
Eating with your teeth: Little, constrained, without desire: eating without much appetite.
To smoke it: Do not eat.
Eat rats: Having nothing to eat, being miserable.
Tighten the loop: Having nothing to eat, depriving yourself of eating, depriving yourself.
Hanging your teeth on the hook: having nothing to eat.
To eat wind: to have nothing to eat.
Eating/pecking clarinets: eating dry bread, fasting, going without eating.
Slamming the dominoes into the void: Having nothing to eat.
Break the belly: don't let someone eat.
Dinner by heart (or go to the ace): fast; have nothing to eat.
Playing the fife: To fast, not to eat, to be deprived of food, to deprive oneself of food.
Tighten your stomach: Fast, be deprived of food, deprive yourself of eating, deprive yourself.
Sulking on the putty: not being hungry, eating with difficulty; eat with your teeth.
Having frozen teeth: do not eat.
This sticking lighters: having nothing to eat.
Hitting the cash register: having nothing to eat.
Crust zeph: eat nothing.
Getting through it: fasting, not eating.
Hitting the lantern: having nothing to eat.
– Phrases with “eat”:
There is something to drink and eat: said of a liquid, wine, broth, coffee, etc., cloudy and thick.
In the figurative sense: is said of a question that presents two senses, of a business that may or may not succeed, of a work where there is good and bad.
Eating at a table that recedes: leaving without having eaten.
We would eat ! : It's appetizing, attractive.
Eat bread boldly: be domestic.
Eat your wheat grass, your white bread.
Eat your white bread first, spend without taking into account the misery to come.
Eat your white bread first: have fun before working. Having a good time in your youth and living miserably in your old age.
I don't eat that bread : I don't do that kind of thing, work
Eat the piece: confess, talk, sit down at the table.
Eat the piece: denounce; betray a secret; to spread the word about an affair too soon, in popular slang. Denounce one's accomplices, or confess one's misdeeds (Thieves' slang). Confessions made by a thief who reveals his accomplices.
Eat the piece: eat the watchword. Don't remember it again (troopers' slang).
Having eaten monkey: said of someone who is in a bad mood and who cannot sit still.
Having eaten your feet: stinking from your mouth (slang of the suburbs).
Eat your hat: die.
Let yourself eat the wool off your back: let yourself be exploited, stolen, without reacting.
To be stupid at eating hay: to be unintelligent.
Eating soup off someone's head: surpassing them in size.
Eat each other, eat each other's noses: argue heatedly at close range, threaten to come to blows.
Eating on the organ: denouncing its practices or accomplices.
Eating mad cow: to be miserable, to be reduced to harsh deprivations.
Eating mad cow: suffer a lot; suffer from cold, thirst and hunger; to have no penny worth, neither fire nor place; to live in misery while waiting for wealth, in sorrow while waiting for happiness.
Have eaten lion/horse today: said to a person showing unusual energy.
It does not eat bread ! : it doesn't cost a lot of effort (to do something), it doesn't commit to anything.
Eating out of someone's hand: being submissive to them, like a tame animal.
Eating on the go: eating in a hurry, eating quickly, summarily, frugally, without ceremony (see the origin of this expression below).
Eating with a slingshot: very quickly.
In Switzerland, eating less means having a quick snack.
Eat like a pig: dirty, with your fingers.
Eating your wheat grass: being improvident.
Eat your hat: radically change your opinion, turn around.
Eat the frog: leave with the cash register, spend sums of which you are only the custodian.
To eat a blow: to take a blow.
To eat someone: to make someone, to hit them.
Eat a sentence: go to prison.
Eat lead: be shot and killed.
Eat five pines: hang for five years (in prison).
Eating it: living illicitly. For a police officer: being corrupt.
Eating bread and cheese: funeral meal. It's an old custom when we bury a comrade, we eat bread and cheese.
Eating cheese: being unhappy; having difficulty putting one's worries aside.
Eat up the shirt of (something): make someone spend everything.
Eating grass by the root, being dead for a long time.
Eat your words: speak quickly and in an incomprehensible manner.
Eating the order: forgetting an order that you have been given.
Having eaten the porridge with a sword: having a very, big mouth.
To eat blood: to worry.
Eat your thumbs: get impatient.
Eating from all racks: accepting from all sides, without scruples.
Eat your nose: fight fiercely.
Eat your senses: get impatient, get angry (bourgeois slang).
Eat your steak: keep quiet (slang of the suburbs).
Eating white: living from prostitution; to be looked after by a woman.
Eat the chicken, share a bribe, share an illicit profit (workers’ slang).
Eat a rabbit: bury a comrade.
To eat one's legitimate possessions: to waste (one's property), to ruin oneself.
Eating Judas bread: betraying, snitching.
Eating the nation's bread: Being in prison.
Jules: work for Jules: eat.
Do not eat such bread: refuse to do something that you believe to be dishonest, despite the benefit that you could derive from it; repugnance of certain professions.
Do not eat someone: do not harm someone, to say not to be afraid: We are not going to eat you! or They won't eat us!
Eat lion/horse: be in great shape, enthusiastic, active, dynamic.
Eat misery, eat prison, suffer misery, prison.
Eat the good Lord: take communion.
Eating the whites of each other's eyes: said of two people who look at each other with anger, as if ready to throw themselves at each other and devour each other.
Eat the frog: Generally said of all those who eat money that does not belong to them.
Eat the wool off someone's back, live at someone's expense, ruin them without making them scream.
Eat the wool off someone's back: deceive them, and even steal from them, without them protesting or realizing it.
Do not eat the candle: have nothing against yourself that you can reproach.
Eating sugar: receiving applause (actors’ slang).
Eating cloth: playing billiards.
Eat (to): fight.
Eating rubbish: looking for work and never finding any (workers' slang).
Eat: do, commit (criminal acts), confess, denounce.
Eat: forget something (eat the commission).
Wolves do not eat each other: dishonest people do not harm each other.
Eat: to be corrupted, to be bought.
Eat someone: catch, surprise, beat someone.
Eating your stockings (or your shirt) (Quebec): worry, panic.
Eating one: getting hit in the face.
Eating from someone's hand: be totally submissive, be obedient, do not resist.
Eating out of hand: taking excessive familiarities, abusing someone's kindness.
Eating out of hand, being very familiar, not observing social distancing.
Eating on the organ: denouncing its practices or accomplices.
Eating in Judea: being part of the police.
Eat your pallet: pray at the foot of your bed.
Eat it/show it green and unripe: be severe, harsh; suffer ; endure surprising things; something unpleasant, bitter.
Eat on us: denounce us.
Eating bricks: not having anything to eat is like eating bricks with stone sauce.
Eating shit: being in the deepest destitution, being consumed with physical and moral suffering.
Eat shit: suffer all the misery and all the humiliations known; being reduced like a snail, to feeding on the rubbish found on the public highway.
Eating beef: being poor (workers’ slang).
Eating red bread, spending money from an assassination.
Eat red bread: live on unpunished assassinations.
Eating the boot: courting a woman diligently without achieving any result.
Eating a woman's fruit: performing cunnilingus.
Eating pecker soup: This is what babies come from.
Eating it: compromising oneself, prostituting oneself (homosexuality), participating.
Eat the eel without the sauce: quickly remove a man's cock when he is about to unload, so as not to have children.
Eating butt bread: living from prostitution.
Eating the game, blowing the handle of the prostitution basket (pimps' jargon).
Eat the game: demand nothing from the men, or not bring back all the money they have given (pimps' slang).
Eating raw flesh: making love.
In Quebec and New Brunswick, eating and being eaten are expressions often used to designate fellatio or cunnilingus.
If your imagination has allowed you to clearly see this once common gesture, then you have just understood the origin of this expression, effectively associated with rapid consumption of food!
Quote from the French humorist Raymond Devos (1922-2006): “When people eat, they take the opportunity to fuel conversation.”