Eat your heart out

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	New2grammar  #521363  Sat, 31 May 08 07:31 PM I always hear "eat your heart out" and today I heard, "campaign her heart out". Is it possible to use "heart out" informally to mean "a lot/aggresively". Oh no. I just looked up the expression "eat yor heart out" and it means something that you say which means that you or someone you know can do something better than a person who is famous for doing that thing. I'm taking singing lessons. Celine Dion, eat your heart out! I thought it meant eat as much as you like/can until you can't take no more. :) Help! Thanks in advance!    New2grammar Joined on Tue, Nov 21 2006 Veteran Member (7,676) Who wants to go sailing around the world with me?
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	Marius Hancu  #521365  Sat, 31 May 08 07:43 PM Yes, it's OK: <> [link]    Marius Hancu Joined on Wed, Apr 26 2006 Montreal, Canada Veteran Member (11,673)

	Marius Hancu  #521367  Sat, 31 May 08 07:47 PM   See: set one's heart on [link] and other idioms with heart at the above site     Marius Hancu
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	New2grammar  #521377  Sat, 31 May 08 09:06 PM Thanks, MH. So, you do agree that eat your heart out has two different meanings, one is related to jealousy and the other binge?      New2grammar

	MrPedantic  #521392  Sat, 31 May 08 10:09 PM I think you have it, N2G. 1. Eat your heart out, X! — X, who is a specialist in this field, would nonetheless "eat his heart out with jealousy", were he to witness my performance. 2. She was X-ing her heart out. — She was X-ing passionately / wholeheartedly / to the fullest extent of her powers. MrP    MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member (12,168) ...opella forensis / adducit febris...

	New2grammar  #521396  Sat, 31 May 08 10:19 PM Thank you, Mr. P!    New2grammar

	Delmobile  #521412  Sun, 01 Jun 08 12:14 AM I've never heard "eat your heart out" used to refer to binge eating. Only for jealousy.    Delmobile Joined on Wed, Jan 2 2008 Mobile, AL, USA Regular Member (562)

	New2grammar  #521415  Sun, 01 Jun 08 12:21 AM Is the binge eating usage British? Anyone?    New2grammar

	MrPedantic  #521446  Sun, 01 Jun 08 01:17 AM Not that I know of. (But I'm afraid there are some very strange people within the borders of our four nations; and some of them will say almost anything to get a mention in the British National Corpus.) MrP    MrPedantic