someone, eat your heart out!

someone, eat your heart out!
(someone), eat your heart out! humorous something that you say which means that you or someone you know can do something better than a person who is famous for doing that thing.

I'm taking singing lessons. Celine Dion, eat your heart out!


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  • eat your heart out! — (someone), eat your heart out! humorous something that you say which means that you or someone you know can do something better than a person who is famous for doing that thing. I m taking singing lessons. Celine Dion, eat your heart out! …   New idioms dictionary

  • eat your heart out — humorous phrase used for saying that you are doing something much better than a famous person does it Thesaurus: to be the best or better than someone elsesynonym Main entry: eat * * * eat your heart out : to be jealous …   Useful english dictionary

  • eat your heart out — If someone tells you to eat your heart out, they are saying they are better than you at something …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • eat one's heart out — PINE, long, ache, brood, mope, fret, sigh, sorrow, yearn, agonize; grieve, mourn, lament. → heart * * * phrasal : to grieve bitterly and without hope * * * eat one s heart out To pine away, brooding over misfortune • • • Main Entry: ↑eat …   Useful english dictionary

  • eat — W1S1 [i:t] v past tense ate [et, eıt US eıt] past participle eaten [ˈi:tn] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(food)¦ 2¦(meal)¦ 3 eat your words 4 eat your heart out 5 eat somebody alive/eat somebody for breakfast 6¦(use)¦ 7 eat humble pie …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • heart — W1S1 [ha:t US ha:rt] n ↑artery, ↑brain, ↑fatty, ↑tissue, ↑heart, ↑kidney, ↑intestine, ↑intestine2, ↑small, ↑large, ↑liver, ↑lung, ↑muscles, ↑stoma …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • eat — [ it ] (past tense ate [ eıt ] ; past participle eat|en [ itn ] ) verb intransitive or transitive *** to put food into your mouth and swallow it: We sat on the grass and ate our sandwiches. Don t talk while you re eating. I ve eaten too much.… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • eat — /i:t/ verb past tense ate /et,eIt/ past participle eaten 1 FOOD a) (I, T) to put food in your mouth and swallow it: Vegetarians don t eat meat. | something to eat (=some food): Would you like something to eat? | eat like a bird (=eat very little) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • heart — noun 1 BODY ORGAN (C) the organ in your chest which pumps blood through your body: Eating too many fatty foods is bad for the heart. | My heart was beating so fast I thought it would burst. | have heart trouble/have a heart condition (=have… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • eat */*/*/ — UK [iːt] / US [ɪt] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms eat : present tense I/you/we/they eat he/she/it eats present participle eating past tense ate UK [et] / UK [eɪt] / US [eɪt] past participle eaten UK [ˈiːt(ə)n] / US [ˈɪt(ə)n] Other ways …   English dictionary

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