"eat out of someone's hand" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "An allusion to the manner in which a tame animal can be fed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eats out of someone's hand",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eating out of someone's hand",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ate out of someone's hand",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eaten out of someone's hand",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eat<,,ate,eaten> out of someone's hand"
      },
      "expansion": "eat out of someone's hand (third-person singular simple present eats out of someone's hand, present participle eating out of someone's hand, simple past ate out of someone's hand, past participle eaten out of someone's hand)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1954 October 7, Earl Wilson, “Earl Wilson's Broadway”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, retrieved 2010-07-20, page 17",
          "text": "When a woman has her husband eating out of her hand, says Washout, you can bet she also has him eating out of cans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 August 30, Tom Fordyce, “Saturday's Paris diary”, in BBC News, retrieved 2010-07-20",
          "text": "Jana Pittman, the new 400m hurdles world champion, had the media eating out of her hand in the aftermath of her victory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Dave Duncan, The Alchemist's Apprentice, page 151",
          "text": "Violetta is well aware of all this and goes out of her way to charm him. . . . He eats out of her hand and would not notice if she fed him rocks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a docile, submissive way towards someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-eat_out_of_someone's_hand-en-verb-cZ7vsB5M",
      "links": [
        [
          "docile",
          "docile"
        ],
        [
          "submissive",
          "submissive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To behave in a docile, submissive way towards someone."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "putty in someone's hands"
        },
        {
          "word": "wrap around one's little finger"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "eat from someone's hand"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be submissive due to fascination",
          "word": "manger dans la main"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to be submissive due to fascination",
          "word": "a tenyeréből eszik"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to be submissive due to fascination",
          "word": "comer nas mãos de alguém"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eat out of someone's hand"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "An allusion to the manner in which a tame animal can be fed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eats out of someone's hand",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eating out of someone's hand",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ate out of someone's hand",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eaten out of someone's hand",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "eat<,,ate,eaten> out of someone's hand"
      },
      "expansion": "eat out of someone's hand (third-person singular simple present eats out of someone's hand, present participle eating out of someone's hand, simple past ate out of someone's hand, past participle eaten out of someone's hand)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "putty in someone's hands"
    },
    {
      "word": "wrap around one's little finger"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1954 October 7, Earl Wilson, “Earl Wilson's Broadway”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune, retrieved 2010-07-20, page 17",
          "text": "When a woman has her husband eating out of her hand, says Washout, you can bet she also has him eating out of cans.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003 August 30, Tom Fordyce, “Saturday's Paris diary”, in BBC News, retrieved 2010-07-20",
          "text": "Jana Pittman, the new 400m hurdles world champion, had the media eating out of her hand in the aftermath of her victory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Dave Duncan, The Alchemist's Apprentice, page 151",
          "text": "Violetta is well aware of all this and goes out of her way to charm him. . . . He eats out of her hand and would not notice if she fed him rocks.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To behave in a docile, submissive way towards someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "docile",
          "docile"
        ],
        [
          "submissive",
          "submissive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To behave in a docile, submissive way towards someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/10/En-au-eat_out_of_someone%27s_hand.ogg/En-au-eat_out_of_someone%27s_hand.ogg.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "eat from someone's hand"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be submissive due to fascination",
      "word": "manger dans la main"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to be submissive due to fascination",
      "word": "a tenyeréből eszik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to be submissive due to fascination",
      "word": "comer nas mãos de alguém"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eat out of someone's hand"
}