eat one out of house and home

[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./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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