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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Letting them gorge you out of house and home.

0What does this 01b01font00sentence02font02b00 01i00letting them gorge you out of house and home02i00 mean?02br
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01font01b00Yes, there is a cake. I wonder how many of them those boys have eaten sice you first came here. 01i01font00Letting them gorge you out of house and home.02font02i02b02font0-
  

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0Can you please go back to check the original sentence?02br
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00"... how many of them those boys..." is not correct, so either this is a dialogue using colloquial grammar, or you have perhaps made an error while typing it over. 02br
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00I think also the word may have been "gouge" instead of "gorge." Could you please confirm the original wording?0-
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10Can you please go back to check the original sentence?12br
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10"... how many of them those boys..." is not correct, so either this is a dialogue using colloquial grammar, or you have perhaps made an error while typing it over. 12br
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10I think also the word may hav
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0There is a saying 'to eat out of house and home' - meaning someone who eats a lot of your food, often applied to teenage children! It means they eat so much they use up all your money...it's usually a joke.02br
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00This is just emphasising it - gorge - to stuff yourself with food, to overeat, to be very greedy.02br
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00Yes, I think the them = (those
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0Ah, I see how the them is used now. I was just reading it incorrectly.02br
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00As Nona says, the usual expression is "eat you out of house and home."0-
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