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eat lunch

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eat someone's lunch
Sl. to best someone; to defeat, outwit, or win against someone. (Like a school bully taking away children's lunches and eating them.) The upstart ABC Computer Company is eating IBM's lunch.
See also: eat, lunch


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That kind of response might typically be reserved for the last day of school, but not for students who had to eat lunch in the gymnasium during the $82 million renovation of a school that went over budget by $12 million and over deadline by two years.
s recital or eat lunch with them at school without having to worry about missing work for it.
Research reveals that the typical lunch break lasts just 19 minutes for British workers and, with just one in three offices offering a designated place to sit and eat lunch, the majority of workers tend to eat lunch at their desk, with almost seven in 10 choosing to continue to work and eat at the same time.
 
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