to eat shit
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- idiom
- /it ʃɪt/
- Offensive
:
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- Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.
- Eat shit and die
- Go eat shit
- eat shit every day
You need to eat shit, get to the next spot.
- You need to eat shit, get to the next spot.
- The question is, are you hungry enough and willing to fucking eat shit or are you soft?
- And you would think that, you know, like if I eat shit, it's it's probably over, right?
- So I am willing to eat shit now for what this club is giving me.
- It looks cool but people don't love eating shit.
- If I can smile throughout my life, even when I'm eating shit, like, yeah, OK, what else you got?
Examples
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You and Hillary Clinton can eat shit together; best of luck trying to beat men at a game that doesn't exist—the sexist inequalities in the music and entertainment industries.
Blog text (29) -
You need to eat shit, get to the next spot.
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So I am willing to eat shit now for what this club is giving me.
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Carter said he offered so low that they told him to eat shit and hit the road.
Fiction book (1998) -
For twenty years I've been eating shit, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Fiction book (1998) -
Her husband said he didn't want to support 'worthless people who got government assistance' and was telling people to 'eat shit and die.'
Blog text (31) -
Eat shit!
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You're gonna eat shit for spreading those rumors about me.
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If you keep messing up like that, you'll have to eat shit at the meeting.
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She told him to eat shit when he tried to undermine her work.
Synonyms
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To tell someone rudely that you do not care about their opinion or order
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Tell someone angrily to go away and that you will not accept their idea
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A rude way to tell someone to go away and show strong anger
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Tell someone rudely to go away or leave you alone
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A very rude phrase that shows strong anger and tells someone to do a sexual act
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Tell someone you strongly refuse or do not believe them as a joke
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A very rude way to tell someone you strongly refuse their idea or order
To lose very badly in a fight or contest
Rudely say to someone that you want them to go away
A rude, insulting phrase that tells someone to do a sexual act
A rude, angry reply that shows you do not care what someone says
Antonyms
How Contemptuous
- Offensive
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- Offensive
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2.1
- Informal
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
eat + shit
The literal combination of 'eat' and 'shit' evokes disgust and an insulting intent, so a learner who knows both words can likely infer it is a strong insult or dismissal. However, the precise pragmatic meanings (dismissal, contempt, or threat of humiliation) and its conventionalized, highly vulgar use are idiomatic and not fully predictable from the parts, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Eat shit may come from an older phrase eat dirt, which creates a clear, ugly picture: someone forced to eat something dirty like shit. That image explains why people use it as a rude 'insult' or to say someone will 'be humiliated' or 'suffer'.