"eat someone for breakfast" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-eat someone for breakfast.ogg Forms: eats someone for breakfast [present, singular, third-person], eating someone for breakfast [participle, present], ate someone for breakfast [past], eaten someone for breakfast [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten> someone for breakfast}} eat someone for breakfast (third-person singular simple present eats someone for breakfast, present participle eating someone for breakfast, simple past ate someone for breakfast, past participle eaten someone for breakfast)
  1. (slang, figuratively) To beat easily; to trounce. Tags: figuratively, slang Synonyms: eat someone's lunch, defeat
    Sense id: en-eat_someone_for_breakfast-en-verb-4kXMDU2U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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