eat someone's heart

eat someone's heart (third-person singular simple present eats someone's heart, present participle eating someone's heart, simple past and past participle ate someone's heart)

1. To destroy and humiliate someone.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing:

     O God! that I were a man. I would eat his heart in the marketplace.

   • 2011, Howard Fast, Moses: The Epic Story of His Rebellion in the Court of Egypt:

     “And now you sit like a maggot in my flesh, waiting only to eat my heart.”

   • 2015, Adam Lewis Schroeder, All-Day Breakfast:

     “I threw down with my brother,” said Clint. “And I utterly kicked his ass, and he's on the college wrestling team. He was crying at the bottom of the stairs, and I was, like, 'I will eat your heart, man, I will totally eat your heart.'

eat one's heart out

• ate someone's heart