Idiom
eat one's own dog food
Meaning
To use or consume the economic goods or services that one is producing; to be part of a closed household economy.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The software company makes its employees eat their own dog food.”
“Before releasing the app to customers, the developers spent a month eating their own dog food to find bugs.”
“The farm had long prided itself on eating its own dog food, growing every vegetable and raising every animal that graced its table.”
Examples
simple
“The software company makes its employees eat their own dog food.”
contextual
“Before releasing the app to customers, the developers spent a month eating their own dog food to find bugs.”
complex
“The farm had long prided itself on eating its own dog food, growing every vegetable and raising every animal that graced its table.”
Origin
From dog food (“beta software”).
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