to eat one's dust
01
to experience a massive defeat by someone in any competitive situation
Dialect
American
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Disapproving
Idiom
Informal
例
He's such a fast runner that his competitors are left eating his dust in every race.
She has been working hard and has left her colleagues eating her dust in terms of productivity.
