- the act of eating something
- healthy eating
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEating is used before these nouns:- apple
- binge
- disorder
- …
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Idioms
See eating in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee eating in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishthe proof of the pudding (is in the eating) | the proof is in the pudding
- (saying) you can only judge if something is good or bad when you have tried it
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