Usually means: Consume all food, exhaust resources.
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  1. eat someone out of house and home: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. eat someone out of house and home: Collins English Dictionary
  3. eat someone out of house and home: Wiktionary
  4. eat someone out of house and home: Dictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (eat someone out of house and home)

verb:  (idiomatic) To consume so much of someone's store of food that little or none is left for the owner.

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