eat someone for breakfast

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === 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) (slang, figuratively) To beat easily; to trounce. Synonyms: eat someone's lunch; see also Thesaurus:defeat === Further reading === “to eat (also have) (a person or thing) for breakfast, phrase” under “breakfast, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, February 2024.