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"ref": "1996, Stephen King, Desperation",
"text": "\"This's nuts,\" his father said, but he spoke hollowly, with no strength. \"If you go wandering around out there, you'll be eaten alive.\"\n\"No more than the coyote ate me alive when I got out of the cell,\" David said. \"The danger isn't if I go out there; it's if we all stay in here.\"",
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"ref": "1992 February, Mark Jenkins, “Beyond the Border: A Primer for Backpacking Abroad”, in Backpacker",
"text": "You may find that in June it rains so hard the streets are filled with a foot of mud and the mosquitoes eat people alive, but in October the place is beautiful.",
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"ref": "1996, Sandra Steffen, Not Before Marriage!, Silhouette Books, published 1996",
"text": "“Let's go into the house before these mosquitoes eat us alive.”",
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"ref": "2002, Jack Williamson, Dragon's Island and Other Stories, Five Star, published 2002, page 157",
"text": "I had to keep close to the riverbank, under the edge of the jungle, with mosquitoes eating me alive.",
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"To consume a prey animal that is still alive, as many predators do.",
"(informal, of insects) To bite repeatedly."
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"ref": "2006, Lora Leigh, Megan's Mark, Berkley Sensation, published 2006",
"text": "She shook her head wearily, the guilt eating her alive.",
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"ref": "2007, Lynn Anderson, They Smell Like Sheep, Volume 2: Leading with the Heart of a Shepherd, Howard Books, published 2007, page 169",
"text": "Eventually, Randy moved through the shock and began to see that anger was eating him alive and poisoning his life.",
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"ref": "2009, Moira Rogers, Sanctuary Lost, Samhain Publishing, Ltd., published 2009, page 38",
"text": "\"How's Abby holding up?\"\n\"She almost isn't.\" Keith sounded exhausted. \"The guilt's eating her alive. […]",
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"ref": "2015 January 18, Charles M. Blow, “How expensive is it to be poor [print version: International New York Times, 20 January 2015, p. 7]”, in The New York Times",
"text": "[M]any low-income people are \"unbanked\" (not served by a financial institution), and thus nearly eaten alive by exorbitant fees.",
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"ref": "2001, Mark Bego, Cher: If You Believe, Taylor Trade Publishing, published 2004, page 141",
"text": "However, the album never even made it onto the record charts, and the critics ate her alive.",
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"ref": "2010 October 10, Evelyn McDonnell, “Book Review: 'Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution' by Sara Marcus”, in Los Angeles Times",
"text": "The media ate them alive. Sympathetic coverage, like Emily White's 1992 L.A. Weekly cover story, devolved into patronizing, parasitic parodies of \"pink, frilly bedrooms.\"",
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"ref": "2011, Stephanie Parker-Weaver, Rebirth: \"A Breast Cancer Journey of Many; Survival of Few\": A Mississippi Civil Rights Activist's Biggest Battle How She Beat the Odds, Xlibris, published 2011, page 283",
"text": "For nearly the entire full four years of Frank's administration, the local media ate him alive for even the slightest misstep.",
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"roman": "raznesti v pux i prax",
"sense": "To criticize harshly or rebuke strongly",
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"text": "You may find that in June it rains so hard the streets are filled with a foot of mud and the mosquitoes eat people alive, but in October the place is beautiful.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Sandra Steffen, Not Before Marriage!, Silhouette Books, published 1996",
"text": "“Let's go into the house before these mosquitoes eat us alive.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2002, Jack Williamson, Dragon's Island and Other Stories, Five Star, published 2002, page 157",
"text": "I had to keep close to the riverbank, under the edge of the jungle, with mosquitoes eating me alive.",
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"To bite repeatedly."
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"ref": "2006, Lora Leigh, Megan's Mark, Berkley Sensation, published 2006",
"text": "She shook her head wearily, the guilt eating her alive.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Lynn Anderson, They Smell Like Sheep, Volume 2: Leading with the Heart of a Shepherd, Howard Books, published 2007, page 169",
"text": "Eventually, Randy moved through the shock and began to see that anger was eating him alive and poisoning his life.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Moira Rogers, Sanctuary Lost, Samhain Publishing, Ltd., published 2009, page 38",
"text": "\"How's Abby holding up?\"\n\"She almost isn't.\" Keith sounded exhausted. \"The guilt's eating her alive. […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015 January 18, Charles M. Blow, “How expensive is it to be poor [print version: International New York Times, 20 January 2015, p. 7]”, in The New York Times",
"text": "[M]any low-income people are \"unbanked\" (not served by a financial institution), and thus nearly eaten alive by exorbitant fees.",
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"To overwhelm or consume someone."
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"ref": "2001, Mark Bego, Cher: If You Believe, Taylor Trade Publishing, published 2004, page 141",
"text": "However, the album never even made it onto the record charts, and the critics ate her alive.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010 October 10, Evelyn McDonnell, “Book Review: 'Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution' by Sara Marcus”, in Los Angeles Times",
"text": "The media ate them alive. Sympathetic coverage, like Emily White's 1992 L.A. Weekly cover story, devolved into patronizing, parasitic parodies of \"pink, frilly bedrooms.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Stephanie Parker-Weaver, Rebirth: \"A Breast Cancer Journey of Many; Survival of Few\": A Mississippi Civil Rights Activist's Biggest Battle How She Beat the Odds, Xlibris, published 2011, page 283",
"text": "For nearly the entire full four years of Frank's administration, the local media ate him alive for even the slightest misstep.",
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"sense": "To criticize harshly or rebuke strongly",
"word": "разнести в пух и прах"
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"sense": "To bite repeatedly",
"word": "comer vivo"
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"word": "eat someone alive"
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