eat someone up

eat someone up: eat someone up†

1. Lit. to consume the flesh of someone. •
The big bad wolf said he was going to eat you up!
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The bear ate up the fish.
2. Fig. [for an idea] to consume a person. •
The whole idea of visiting Australia was just eating her up.
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The obsession to own a car was eating up my brother and his friends.
3. Fig. [for insects] to bite a person all over. •
These mosquitoes are just eating me up!
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The bugs literally ate up all the hikers.
4. Fig. [for someone] to overwhelm and devastate someone. •
The guy is a devil! He just eats up people!
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Fred will just eat you up. He is a vicious administrator.

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eat someone alive — If you eat someone alive, you defeat or beat them comprehensively … The small dictionary of idiomes
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eat someone up — dominate someone s thoughts completely. → eat … English new terms dictionary

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