eat my shorts
go away or leave me alone
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eat one's cake and have it too
enjoy two things that are mutually exclusive
eat one's feelings
To cope with emotions by eating
eat one's gun
to commit suicide with a firearm
eat one's hat
To be forced to admit one's mistake or surprise
eat one's head off
To talk excessively or annoy someone with talking
eat one's heart out
to feel intense envy or longing
eat one's own
To suffer the consequences of one's own actions
eat one's own dog food
To use or test one's own product or service
eat one's seed corn
Spend resources needed for future success
eat one's Wheaties
to perform well or energetically
eat one's young
to exploit or harm one's own kind
eat out of someone's hand
To be completely under someone's control or influence
eat shit
to accept or tolerate something unpleasant
eat someone out of house and home
To eat excessively, depleting someone's food supply.
eat someone's dust
to be left behind or surpassed by someone
eat someone's lunch
to outdo or surpass someone
eat the mic
to perform exceptionally well, especially when singing
eat the onion
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
eat the rich
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
eat up with a spoon
To completely devour or enjoy something enthusiastically
eat, breathe, and sleep
To be completely obsessed with something
eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
Life is short, so you should enjoy it while you can.
eating ass
Anilingus.
eau de Cologne
Telephone.
Eau de Cologne
A perfumed spirit, originally prepared at Cologne. It was invented by an Italian chemist, Johann Maria Farina, who settled in Cologne in 1709. The usual recipe prescribes twelve drops of each of the essential oils, Bergamot, citron, neroli, orange, and rosemary, with one dram of Malabar cardo- moms and a gallon of rectified spirits, which are distilled together.
eavesdropper
A listener. The name is derived from the punishment which, according to Oliver, was directed in the Lectures, at the revival of Masonry in 1717, to be inflicted on a detected Cowan [g. v.], and which was
eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves
People who secretly listen to others' conversations will not hear positive comments about themselves
ecce signura
See it, in proof. Behold the proof. I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut through and through; my sword hacked like a handsaw — ecce signum! — 1 Henry IV, ii, 4.
ecilop
police
economic growth
An increase in a country's production of goods and services
Eden Hall
The luck of Eden Hall. An enamelled drinking-glass, made probably in Venice m the 10th century, in the possession of the Musgrave family at Eden Hall, Cumberland, and traditionally supposed to be endowed with fortune-bringing properties. The tale is that it was taken from St.
edge of the earth
A remote or distant place
edge of the world
A remote or inaccessible place
edge out
to barely defeat or surpass someone
edish
An edition.
edjamacation
Education.
Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. (Ambrose Bierce)
Education reveals knowledge to the wise, but hides ignorance from the foolish.
Edward IV
It seems to have been used for the last time by James I in 1614, but it was not declared illegal till the passing of the Bill of Rights in 1689.
Edward VII
It was originally made in Hom- burg in Prussia where the King "took the waters.
eeople put on their best attire
(Ital. gala, nery.) Galahad, Sir (gal' a had).
eff all
fuck all.
eff off
fuck off.
effer
Fucker.
effluxion of time
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
efter
A thief who frequents theatres.
egan
Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, with the addition of numerous Slang Phrases, edited by Pierce Egan, 8vo. 1823.
egan’s
(Pierce) Life in London, 2 vols. thick 8vo, with coloured plates by Geo. Cruikshank, representing high and low life. 18—.
egg
Or EGG ON, to excite, stimulate, or provoke one person to quarrel with another, &c. From the Anglo-Saxon eggian; or possibly a corruption of EDGE, or EDGE ON, or even from agere, to drive.—Ancient.
Egg Feast
In Oxford the Saturday preceding Shrove Tuesday used to be so called because, as the eating of eggs was forbidden during Lent, the scholars took leave of them on that day. They were allowed again at Easter, hence the coloured "Easter egg.
egg on
to encourage or urge someone to do something
egg tart
fart
egg-flip
Or EGG-HOT, a drink made after the manner of purl and bishop, with beer, eggs, and spirits made hot and sweetened.
Eggs and oaths are soon broken. (Strauss, 1998 p. 765)
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
eggs in moonshine
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Egotist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. (Ambrose Bierce)
A person excessively concerned with themselves
egyptian days
Unlucky days, days on which no business should be undertaken. The Egyptian astrologers named two in each month, but the last Monday in April, the second Monday of August, and the third Monday of December seem to have been specially baneful.
eight eyes
I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another: every woman, according to the naturalists of that society, having eight eyes; viz. two seeing eyes, two bub-eyes, a bell-eye, two pope's eyes, and a ***-eye. He has fallen down and trod upon his eye; said of one who has a black eye.
eight oxgangs made a carucate
If an oxgang were as much as one ox could cultivate, its average would be about fifteen acres.
eighty percent of life is showing up
Much of success comes from simply being present and making an effort.
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