Eat Sth Free Meaning Reduce Amount High Fuel

Meaning: to use up, or reduce the amount of, something of value

• eat into sth High fuel costs have been eating into many airlines' profit margins.
  
  
• eat into sth Answering work-related emails is starting to seriously eat into my free time.
  
  

Nouns often used as objects with eat into: savings, profits, income, time, free time