eat you food

eat you food
 v. phr.— «To “eat you food” is not a reference to removing a cornmeal dumpling from someone else’s plate. It means that the food eater is going to murder you» —“Withdrawals and apologies” by Heather Robinson Jamaica Gleaner (Kingston) May 4, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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