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[eat one out
of house and home] {v. phr.} 1. To eat so much as tocause economic hardship.
Our teenaged sons are so hungry all thetime that they may soon eat us out of
house and home.
2. To overstayone's welcome.
We love Bob and Jane very much,
but after two weekswe started to feel that they were eating us out of house and
home.
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