eat one's own
verbEtymology
Short for eat one's own kind or similar, as certain living organisms do.
Definitions
To turn on and attack members of one's own group or clique.
- So, in a way, they sat back and watched liberals eat their own—they watched as just deserts advocates undermined the legitimacy of rehabilitation in a way they never could have.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for eat one's own. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA