Idiom
eat shit
Vulgar
Meaning
An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Tell him to eat shit for lying to me.”
“After the boss blamed me for his own mistake, I told him to eat shit and walked out.”
“The disgruntled employee finally reached his breaking point, shouting at the manager to eat shit before storming out of the office for the last time.”
Examples
simple
“Tell him to eat shit for lying to me.”
contextual
“After the boss blamed me for his own mistake, I told him to eat shit and walked out.”
complex
“The disgruntled employee finally reached his breaking point, shouting at the manager to eat shit before storming out of the office for the last time.”
Origin
The expression entered English as a calque of the Spanish phrase *comer mierda*, which translates literally to "to eat shit." The idiom originated in the context of Cuban Spanish, where the phrase functions as a colloquialism for the act of wasting time.
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