"eat and leave no crumbs" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-eat and leave no crumbs.wav [US] Forms: eats and leaves no crumbs [present, singular, third-person], eating and leaving no crumbs [participle, present], ate and left no crumbs [past], eaten and left no crumbs [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten> and leave<,,left> no crumbs}} eat and leave no crumbs (third-person singular simple present eats and leaves no crumbs, present participle eating and leaving no crumbs, simple past ate and left no crumbs, past participle eaten and left no crumbs)
  1. (slang, idiomatic) Synonym of eat: to be very good at something; to rule; to rock. Tags: idiomatic, slang Synonyms: leave no crumbs [ellipsis], eat [synonym, synonym-of]

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