"eat someone's dust" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-eat someone's dust.ogg [Australia] Forms: eats someone's dust [present, singular, third-person], eating someone's dust [participle, present], ate someone's dust [past], eaten someone's dust [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten> someone's dust}} eat someone's dust (third-person singular simple present eats someone's dust, present participle eating someone's dust, simple past ate someone's dust, past participle eaten someone's dust)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To be outrun. Tags: idiomatic, informal
    Sense id: en-eat_someone's_dust-en-verb-TlwbQ74- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36
  2. (informal) To get one to be on a losing end. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-eat_someone's_dust-en-verb-QQz92ap8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: eat my dust Related terms: bite the dust

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