eat and leave no crumbs

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eat and leave no crumbs (third-person singular simple present eats and leaves no crumbs, present participle eating and leaving no crumbs, simple past ate and left no crumbs, past participle eaten and left no crumbs)

1. (slang, idiomatic) Synonym of eat: to be very good at something; to rule; to rock.

   Synonym: (ellipsis) leave no crumbs

   • 2023 February 5, Jessica Wang, “Pedro Pascal is daddy and Sarah Paulson is mommy in SNL's fancam sketch”, in Entertainment Weekly‎^[1]:

     Pedro Pascal and Sarah Paulson both ate and left no crumbs in a Saturday Night Live sketch that poked fun at fancams in the era of TikTok.