Etymology Journal · E
Eat up with it
Meaning
- To be absolutely obsessed with or deeply involved in a specific activity or idea. It describes someone who is completely taken over by a new hobby or passion.
Playful, observant
Used in a sentence
- He started gardening last month and now he is just eat up with it.
- She is eat up with that new bridge club.
- Once he got that telescope, he was eat up with astronomy.
The backstory
This is a Southern colloquialism. It suggests that a person has ingested so much of a certain 'thing' that it is now part of their personality.
Heard in
The South
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