eat something up

eat something up (third-person singular simple present eats something up, present participle eating something up, simple past ate something up, past participle eaten something up)

1. Alternative form of eat something up with a spoon
   • 2004, David Dvorkin, Business Secrets from the Stars, page 241:

     The marks will eat it up.

   • 2014, Kelly Parsons, Doing Harm:

     Very dramatic. The media will eat it up.

   • 2014, Kevin O'Brien, The Next To Die:

     I had sex with a child killer. It's guilt by association. The tabloids will eat it up.

• ate something up