All you do is put stuff in your mouth and force it in your throat. Easy.
Toddler: How to eat?
Mother: Put something in your mouth!
Toddler: Ok! *proceeds to shove toys in his or her's mouth excessively.
Mother: I DIDN'T MEAN THAT!
Origin: Hokkien, literal translation from the Hokkien phrase “Jiak Zhua”
Eat snake is a phrase used to describe a person’s attitude towards work or tasks. It practically means skiving at work and slacking off from tasks and responsibilities.
While everyone is hard at work, Jonas always “eat snake”. He always takes his own sweet time in the toilet and keeps surfing the internet during working hours.
Credits to The Singlish dictionary
meaning no commitment to plan to eat anything in particular. Deciding at the time what you feel like eating
Man: What time do you want to get dinner later ?
Woman: I don’t mind, let’s just play it by eat.
When you're playing skin flute and you get some on your tie.
Brett was eating pears, now he has jizz on his tie.
When you are nervous, especially while learning for a test, eating candy/cookies like your life depends on it.
Mom: Brad, quit the nerve eating while you study, you plundered the whole cupboard in the kitchen for tasty things!
Brad: chomp,chomp, but Mom, i have this big test tomorrow, and i am not sure if i will pass. So I'm having a big nerve eating attack rite nao!
Mom:#NERDRAGE