eat someone's heart

verb

To destroy and humiliate someone.

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Meanings

verbeat someone's heart (third-person singular simple present eats someone's heart, present participle eating someone's heart, simple past and past participle ate someone's heart)

present singular third person eats someone's heart · participle present eating someone's heart · participle past ate someone's heart · past ate someone's heart

  1. To destroy and humiliate someone.

    O God! that I were a man. I would eat his heart in the marketplace.

    1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
    2 more examples

    “And now you sit like a maggot in my flesh, waiting only to eat my heart.”

    2011, Howard Fast, Moses: The Epic Story of His Rebellion in the Court of Egypt

    “I threw down with my brother,” said Clint. “And I utterly kicked his ass, and he's on the college wrestling team. He was crying at the bottom of the stairs, and I was, like, 'I will eat your heart, man, I will totally eat your heart.'

    2015, Adam Lewis Schroeder, All-Day Breakfast
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