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Phrase(s): gobble something up
to use up, buy up, or occupy all of something. • The shoppers gobbled all the sale merchandise up in a few hours. • They gobbled up everything., Phrase(s): gobble someone or something up
to eat someone or something completely and rapidly. • The wolf said that he was going to gobble the little girl up. • The wolf wanted to gobble up the little pig.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs