"eat one's own" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Short for eat one's own kind or similar, as certain living organisms do.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eats one's own",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eating one's own",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ate one's own",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eaten one's own",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eat<,,ate,eaten> one's own"
      },
      "expansion": "eat one's own (third-person singular simple present eats one's own, present participle eating one's own, simple past ate one's own, past participle eaten one's own)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences:",
          "text": "So, in a way, they sat back and watched liberals eat their own—they watched as just deserts advocates undermined the legitimacy of rehabilitation in a way they never could have.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn on and attack members of one's own group or clique."
      ],
      "id": "en-eat_one's_own-en-verb-6OfNNSzS",
      "links": [
        [
          "turn on",
          "turn on"
        ],
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
        [
          "group",
          "group"
        ],
        [
          "clique",
          "clique"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To turn on and attack members of one's own group or clique."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "eat one's own"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Short for eat one's own kind or similar, as certain living organisms do.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eats one's own",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eating one's own",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ate one's own",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eaten one's own",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eat<,,ate,eaten> one's own"
      },
      "expansion": "eat one's own (third-person singular simple present eats one's own, present participle eating one's own, simple past ate one's own, past participle eaten one's own)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016, Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Correctional Theory: Context and Consequences:",
          "text": "So, in a way, they sat back and watched liberals eat their own—they watched as just deserts advocates undermined the legitimacy of rehabilitation in a way they never could have.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To turn on and attack members of one's own group or clique."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "turn on",
          "turn on"
        ],
        [
          "attack",
          "attack"
        ],
        [
          "group",
          "group"
        ],
        [
          "clique",
          "clique"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To turn on and attack members of one's own group or clique."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "eat one's own"
}