eat one's head off

Meaning: (idiomatic)Of an animal: tocostmore tofeedthan it isworth.1861, Anthony Trollope,Framley Parsonage:And then, as he sauntered up Whitehall towards Charing Cross, with Robarts on his arm, he again pressed upon him the sale of that invaluable hunter, who waseating his head off his shouldersin the stable at Chaldicotes.1908, D. F. E. Sykes,Miriam: A Tale of Pole Moor and the Greenfield Hills:Now Jim and I had found it necessary to buy a horse and cart, and the animal waseating its head offin a stable by the mill.1943, Stuart Palmer,The Puzzle of the Silver Persian:He knew that, only a few hours from London, the Hunt was cubbing over his ancestral and much-mortgaged acres, while his own horseate its head offin a stable.

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