bite to eat
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- noun
- Informal
:
algo para comer
- We'll go to our place and then have a bite to eat.
People are going to want to stop at rest stops, malls, but like obviously restaurants and things like that where it's easy to take a break and have a bite to eat.
- People are going to want to stop at rest stops, malls, but like obviously restaurants and things like that where it's easy to take a break and have a bite to eat.
- Whether you were at the grocery store grabbing a bite to eat.
- I have a little little bite to eat at at break time and then lunchtime I used to go to after school clubs.
Examples
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How about we go out for a bite to eat tonight?
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Let's go downtown for a bite to eat, yeah?
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Oh, we're gonna go get a bite to eat.
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We're just trying to find a bite to eat.
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Hey, where can I get a bite to eat with my son?
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We're gonna go grab a bite to eat.
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Wanna grab a bite to eat?
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Immediately after work, he would change his clothes, grab a bite to eat, and go out.
Fiction book (1998) -
Why don't you have a bite to eat with us?
Fiction book (1999) -
How about we go out for a bite to eat tonight?
Synonyms
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A small amount of food eaten quickly
A quick, simple meal you make and eat when short on time
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a small meal or light snack' is directly derivable from combining 'bite' (a small mouthful or quick snack) with the purpose phrase 'to eat' — together they denote a small amount to eat. This noun + to-infinitive composition is a regular, cross-linguistic pattern and follows normal English semantics, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bite to eat comes from the simple picture of taking a single bite to eat when you have only a little time. So, it came to mean 'a small meal' or 'a quick snack'.