WHAT'S EATING YOU Definition & Meaning

what's eating you

Also, what's bugging you. What is annoying or bothering you? For example, We've conceded just about every point, so what's eating you now? or You're in a terrible mood—what's bugging you? The first slangy term, dating from the late 1800s, presumably uses eat in the sense of “consume”; the colloquial variant, from about 1940, uses bug in the sense of “annoy.” Also see what's with.

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“What’s eating you?” she said, removing a tray of hot biscuits from the stove.

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Grampa could tell I was upset, and before I could slip upstairs to sulk in my room, he said, “Hiram, let’s go set in the living room and you can tell me what’s eating you. Ever since you got home from fishing, you’ve looked more miserable than a crawdad in a stew pot.”

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“What’s eating you, Hank? Have I said something—” He took her hand and walked her around to the front of the school building.

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what's done is done What's good for the goose is good for the gander

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