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Idiom(s) of the day: Eat someone alive
Variation(s): eat somebody for breakfast
My category (Russian-to-English translation): Переживание и страх (Frustration and fear). Безопасность и риск (Safety and risk). Неприятности и проблемы (Trouble and difficulty). Смерть и болезнь (Death and illness)
Explanation(s):
Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Idioms, 2004 (CCDI):
If you say that someone or something will eat you alive, you mean that they seem to be a great threat to you, and may destroy you.
If someone such as an illness or a problem is eating you alive, it is causing you great pain or distress.
If you are eaten alive by insects, you are repeatedly bitten by them.
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
exploit someone's weakness and completely dominate them; (of insects) bite someone many times
to criticize or punish sb severely because you are extremely angry with them; to defeat sb completely in an argument, a competition, etc.; [usually passive] (of insects, etc.) to bite sb many times
to be very angry with someone or to defeat them completely
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
to defeat, conquer, or overwhelm completely
Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary v4.7:
Translation(s):
CCDI:
(Готов) живьем съесть кого-либо.
Мучить, терзать кого-либо; отравлять жизнь кому-либо; загонять в гроб кого-либо (о болезни, мучительных переживаниях, хлопотах и т.п.).
Заедать кого-либо (о насекомых).
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
Multitran (www.multitran.ru):
съедать кого-либо живьём, подвергать кого-либо нападкам и угрозам
Multilex (www.multilex.ru):
Examples:
CCDI:
If a president does not combine the short-run and long-run objectives, he’s going to be eaten alive by Wall Street.
He was certain Sid would be eaten alive by the hardened criminals at the jail.
The pain ate him alive; the world was nothing but fire and pain.
I know and she knows that the nursing home is the only solution. But it is eating me alive.
We’ve been sleeping on the floor; we have no water. It’s been easily 100, 125 degrees. We’ve been eaten alive by bugs.
‘Can we go out?’ ‘Outside?’ The mosquitoes will eat us alive.
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
He expects manufacturers to be eaten alive by lawyers in liability suits. We were eaten alive by mosquitoes.
The defence lawyers are going to eat you alive tomorrow. I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes.
He'll get eaten alive if he tries anything on with Barbara — Если он попробует законтачить с Барбарой, то она быстро приберет его к рукам
be eaten alive by lice in the trenches — кормить вшей в окопах
You can’t tell him that – he’ll eat you alive!
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
was eaten alive by the competition
Florida's slogan should be 'The only place you can be eaten alive by mosquitoes while you enjoy rain every day'.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) v4.0:
Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary v4.7:
British National Corpus (BNC), Mark Davies (http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/): [eat] * alive, total 12
It's a killing job. Little kids eat you alive, they want so much physically and emotionally.
From their orbital hive-turned-fortress, they would sally out against whoever was left and eat them alive.
A bitter old biddy, eating herself alive with bile, pretending to be crippled to tie her son to the old place, sucking all the life out of him.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Mark Davies (http:// www.americancorpus.org/): [eat] * alive, total 155
Such is life as the Cowboys starting quarterback, a job that can lift you up or eat you alive.
I've never seen an opium den so run down and so full of insects. You pay in advance and then they eat you alive...
"What you want," Ginsberg said, off-the-bat, "is to get out of New York. Premiums will eat you alive. "
It's true a poorly chosen implementation will eat you alive, but there are significant productivity gains that you lose if you do nothing.
You've got a wanderlust that will eat you alive unless you indulge it.
"The cabouri flies will eat you alive," he continued, moving over to the crate and lashing it shut.
Revenge will eat you alive. Trust me. I know.
Traditionally, commodities trade in the futures and options markets, arcane arenas where timing is tricky and the costs can eat you alive.
I knew I was femme, opinionated, bossy, romantically masochistic, and that those girls were going to eat me alive.
Now I want you to try and think up something I can do to break this fearful monotony that is eating me alive.
Ennis says nothing he doesn't mean; he's incapable of guile, yet he erupts in tantrums-the anger of a man who can't be what he is and doesn't realize the quandary is eating him alive.
There are a lot of us who are just plain sick of trying to stop this gravy-sucking hog called the federal government and its liberal friends from eating us alive.
The media will eat us alive for politicizing the kid's death.
As negligible as a worm in the earth during the daylight hours, at night in her dreams the curse grew large and threatened to eat her alive.
My companion project: An Idiom a Day (www.twitter.com/AVDemid): Hannibal Lecter’s advice: If tempted to eat a person alive, don’t let the temptation fester and eat you alive—you’ll be thrown in jail and eaten alive by bugs.
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