Careful, she'll have you for breakfast if you're not prepared to debate her.
•I'm afraid they had our team for breakfast again.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
have someone for breakfast — have (or eat) someone for breakfast informal deal with or defeat someone with contemptuous ease … Useful english dictionary
have (or eat) someone for breakfast — informal deal with or defeat someone with contemptuous ease. → breakfast … English new terms dictionary
Fate for Breakfast — Infobox Album | Name = Fate For Breakfast Type = Album Artist = Art Garfunkel Released = March 1979 Recorded = 1979 Genre = Folk Rock Length = 36:44 Label = Columbia Records Producer = Louie Shelton, Mike Batt Last album = Watermark (1978) This… … Wikipedia
breakfast — break|fast1 [ brekfəst ] noun count or uncount *** the first meal you have in the morning: What did you have for breakfast this morning? a. a meal consisting of the things people often have for breakfast, for example eggs or BACON: Try our all… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
for — We use for + a period of time to say how long something goes on: for six years (I ve lived in this house for six years.) for two hours (We watched television for two hours last night.) for a week (Ann is going away for a week in September.) Are… … Combinatory dictionary
breakfast — noun a meal eaten in the morning, the first of the day. verb eat breakfast. Phrases have (or eat) someone for breakfast informal deal with or defeat someone with contemptuous ease. Derivatives breakfaster noun Origin ME: from break1 + … English new terms dictionary
have — [ weak əv, həv, strong hæv ] (3rd person singular has [ weak əz, həz, strong hæz ] ; past tense and past participle had [ weak əd, həd, strong hæd ] ) verb *** Have can be used in the following ways: as an auxiliary verb in perfect tenses of… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
For One More Day — is a 2006 novel taken place during the mid 1900 s by the acclaimed sportswriter and author Mitch Albom. It opens with the novel s protagonist planning to commit suicide. His adulthood is shown to have been rife with sadness. His own daughter didn … Wikipedia
have */*/*/ — strong UK [hæv] / US weak UK [əv] / US UK [həv] / US verb Word forms have : present tense I/you/we/they have he/she/it has strong UK [hæz] / US weak UK [əz] / US UK [həz] / US present participle having past tense had strong UK [hæd] / US weak UK… … English dictionary
have — have1 W1S1 [v, əv, həv strong hæv] auxiliary v past tense and past participle had [d, əd, həd strong hæd] third person singular has [z, əz, həz strong hæz] [: Old English; Origin: habban] 1.) used with past participles to form ↑perfect tenses ▪… … Dictionary of contemporary English
have — 1 strong, auxiliary verb past tense had, strong, third person singularpresent tense has; strong, negative short forms: haven t, hadn t, hasn t 1 used with the past participle of another verb to make the perfect tense of that verb: We have… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
