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Idiom

bite to eat

Meaning

A snack or quick meal.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Let's grab a bite to eat before the movie starts.”

“Since we have a long drive ahead, we should stop somewhere for a quick bite to eat.”

“After the long meeting concluded, the exhausted colleagues decided to find a quiet place for a modest bite to eat.”

Examples

simple

“Let's grab a bite to eat before the movie starts.”

contextual

“Since we have a long drive ahead, we should stop somewhere for a quick bite to eat.”

complex

“After the long meeting concluded, the exhausted colleagues decided to find a quiet place for a modest bite to eat.”

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