Eat Time Sth Meaning Money Spend Lot Synonym

Meaning: If something eats up your time or money, you spend a lot of time or money on it.

• eat up sth The recent trade deficit ate up nearly all our country's foreign reserves.
  
  
• eat sth up Having a hobby like running marathons eats nearly all my free time up.
  
  
• being eat up Our profits are being eaten up by the rising costs of oil.