You’re watching Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for December 30.

National Bacon Day

Today’s word is eat, spelled e-a-t.

eat / iːt/ verb

all-you-can-eat adjective

providing an unlimited amount of food for a fixed price

Casa Bonita is, at $8.29, a great value for an all-you-can-eat deluxe Mexican dinner.

— Sally Stich, Sunset, August 1994

The casual restaurant and bar also offers an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet at 8 a.m. Sundays.

— Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 19 July 2017

(figurative) Back in December, when … Internet providers went to all-you-can-eat pricing, it caused overloads and brownouts on phone systems from Washington to San Francisco.

— Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., Wall Street Journal, 22 Oct. 1997

eat your words idiom

to admit that what you said was wrong

I’m going to make you eat your words.

They think we can't compete with them - I'll make them eat their words.

what’s eating sb?

spoken used to ask why someone seems annoyed or upset

What’s eating Sally today?

What’s eating you?

With your word of the day, I’m Mohammad Golpayegani.

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