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[easy] See: FREE AND EASY, GET OFF EASY, ON EASY STREET, TAKE IT EASY or GO EASY or TAKE THINGS EASY.
[easygoing]{adj.} Amiable in manner; relaxed; not excited. •/Because Al has an easygoing personality, everybody loves him./
[easy as pie] See: PIECE OF CAKE.
[easy come, easy go]{truncated sent.}, {informal} Something you get quickly and easily may be lost or spent just as easily. •/Grandfather thought Billy should have to work for the money Father gave him, saying "Easy come, easy go."/
[easy does it]{informal} Let’s do it carefully, without sudden movements and without forcing too hard or too fast; let’s try to just hard enough but not too hard. •/"Easy does it," said the boss as they moved the piano through the narrow doorway./ Compare: TAKE IT EASY.
[easy mark]{n.} A foolishly generous person; one from whom it is easy to get money. •/Bill is known to all the neighborhood beggars as an easy mark./ See: SOFT TOUCH.
[easy money]{n.}, {informal} Money gained without hard work; money that requires little or no effort. •/The movie rights to a successful play mean easy money to the writer of the play./ •/Young people who look for easy money are usually disappointed./
[eat] See: DOG-EAT-DOG, LIVE HIGH OFF THE HOG or EAT HIGH ON THE HOG, LOOK LIKE THE CAT THAT ATE THE CANARY.
[eat away]{v.} 1. To rot, rust, or destroy. •/Rust was eating away the pipe./ •/Cancer ate away the healthy flesh./ See: EAT OUT(2). 2. To gradually consume. •/The ocean waves were gradually eating the volcanic rocks until they turned into black sand./
[eat away at]{v. phr.} To psychologically gnaw at; to worry someone. •/Fear of the comprehensive examination was eating away at Sam./
[eat crow]{v. phr.} To admit you are mistaken or defeated; take back a mistaken statement. •/John had boasted that he would play on the first team; but when the coach did not choose him, he had to eat crow./ •/Fred said he could beat the new man in boxing, but he lost and had to eat crow./ Compare: BACK DOWN, EAT HUMBLE PIE, EAT ONE’S WORDS.
[eat dirt]{v. phr.}, {informal} To act humble; accept another’s insult or bad treatment. •/Mr. Johnson was so much afraid of losing his job that he would eat dirt whenever the boss got mean./
[eat (live) high on the hog] or [eat (live) high off the hog]{v. phr.} To eat or live well or elegantly. •/For the first few days after the check arrived, they ate high on the hog./ Compare: IN CLOVER or IN THE CLOVER, ON EASY STREET.
[eat humble pie]{v. phr.} To be humbled; to accept insult or shame; admit your error and apologize. •/Tow told a lie about George, and when he was found out, he had to eat humble pie./ •/In some old stories a boy with a stepfather has to eat humble pie./
[eating one]{v. phr.} To cause someone to be angry or ill-humored. •/We can’t figure out what’s eating Burt, but he hasn’t spoken one pleasant word all day./
[eat like a bird]{v. phr.} To eat very little; have little appetite. •/Mrs. Benson is on a diet and she eats like a bird./ •/Alice’s mother is worried about her; she eats like a bird and is very thin./ Contrast: EAT LIKE A HORSE.
[eat like a horse]{v. phr.} To eat a lot; eat hungrily. •/The harvesters worked into the evening, and then came in and ate like horses./ Contrast: EAT LIKE A BIRD.
[eat one out of house and home]{v. phr.} 1. To eat so much as to cause economic hardship. •/Our teenaged sons are so hungry all the time that they may soon eat us out of house and home./ 2. To overstay one’s welcome. •/We love Bob and Jane very much, but after two weeks we started to feel that they were eating us out of house and home./
[eat one’s cake and have it too]{v. phr.} To use or spend something and still keep it; have both when you must choose one of two things. Often used in negative sentences. •/Roger can’t make up his mind whether to go to college or get a job. You can’t eat your cake and have it too./ •/Mary wants to buy a beautiful dress she saw at the store, but she also wants to save her birthday money for camp. She wants to eat her cake and have it too./
[eat one’s heart out]{v. phr.} To grieve long and hopelessly; to become thin and weak from sorrow. •/For months after her husband’s death, Joanne simply ate her heart out./ •/We sometimes hear of a dog eating its heart out for a dead owner./
[eat one’s words] also [swallow one’s words]{v. phr.} To take back something you have said; admit something is not true. •/John had called Harry a coward, but the boys made him eat his words after Harry bravely fought a big bully./ Compare: EAT CROW.
[eat out]{v.} 1. To eat in a restaurant; eat away from home. •/Fred ate out often even when he wasn’t out of town./ 2. To rust, rot, or be destroyed in time. •/Rust had eaten out the gun barrel./ See: EAT AWAY.
[eat out of one’s hand]{v. phr.}, {informal} To trust someone fully; believe or obey someone without question. •/The governor has the reporters eating out of his hand./ •/Helen is so pretty and popular that all the boys eat out of her hand./