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New2grammar Posted 18 years ago
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eat your heart out

0I always hear "eat your heart out" and today I heard, "campaign her heart out". Is it possible to use "heart out" informally to mean "a lot/aggresively".02br
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00Oh no. I just looked up the expression "eat yor heart out" and it means 02br
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00something that you say which means that you or someone you know can do something better than a person who is famous for doing that thing. 01i01font00I'm taking singing lessons. Celine Dion, eat your heart out!02font02i02br
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00I thought it meant eat as much as you like/can until you can't take no more. 05002br
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00Thanks in advance!010id1
  

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0Yes, it's OK:02br
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0Thanks, MH. So, you do agree that eat your heart out has two different meanings, one is related to jealousy and the other binge?0-
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0I think you have it, N2G.02br
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001. Eat your heart out, X!02br
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00— X, who is a specialist in this field, would nonetheless "eat his heart out with jealousy", were he to witness my performance.02br
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00— She was X-ing passionately / wholeheartedly / to the fulles
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0Thank you, Mr. P!0-
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0I've never heard "eat your heart out" used to refer to binge eating. Only for jealousy. 0-
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0Is the binge eating usage British? Anyone?0-
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0 Not that I know of. (But I'm afraid there are some very strange people within the borders of our four nations; and some of them will say almost anything to get a mention in the British National Corpus.)02br
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00MrP 0-
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0My apologies. I chose the wrong word and probably it caused the misunderstanding. I shouldn't have picked the word 'binge'. I needed a word to describe "eat as much as you like/can until you can't take no more." and I thought binge was the right choice.02br
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00Delmobile, correct me if I'm wrong. You may have heard of "eat your heart out' but the meaning is not "binge", a
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0It's another way to say "To your heart's content."0-
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