Question

Eat You Out of House and Home to be so expensive to feed and keep that the person paying cannot afford it

Accepted Answer

Matthew grew four inches, and he's eating his parents out of house and home. William Shakespeare used this famous saying in one of his plays around the year 1600, but it probably goes back as far as 2,000 years. "House" and "home" mean about the same thing, of course. Using them both in the one expression doubles the meaning.

Idiom	Eat You Out of House and Home
Example	Matthew grew four inches, and he's eating his parents out of house and home.
Meaning	to be so expensive to feed and keep that the person paying cannot afford it
Origin	William Shakespeare used this famous saying in one of his plays around the year 1600, but it probably goes back as far as 2,000 years. "House" and "home" mean about the same thing, of course. Using them both in the one expression doubles the meaning.

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