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Discover LudwigThe sentence 'it eats you' is not correct and not usable in written English without additional context or explanation
If you were writing a story or expressing a metaphor, you could use this phrase in the context of an animal or monster eating a person. For example: "The monster roared and charged forward, its razor-sharp teeth ready to devour its victim - it eats you."
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Perhaps, for children, even too much so: the idea of a "dream crab" sitting on our faces while we sleep, and in the Doctor's grinningly chill words, "keeping you warm and happy while it eats you" should by rights lead to a good few complex nightmares for children of tender sensibilities, which is a nice corrective to these cotton-wool days.
As Jenna Wortham recently wrote in The New York Times, in reference to recent incidents of police violence against black people: "All the rage and mourning and angst works to exhaust you; it eats you alive with its relentlessness.
"It eats you away".
If you doze, it eats you up".
"And if you're not secure in who you are, it eats you up".
You get into the game, it beats you down and it eats you alive and then you find out.
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Look like it eat you up".
Don't let it eat you from the inside.
"Every time you do something and nothing goes any further, it eats at you," he says.
It'll eat you up".
He added, "This place is, it can eat you up".
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