eat one's seed corn (English, verb)
expansion: eat one's seed corn (third-person singular simple present eats one's seed corn, present participle eating one's seed corn, simple past ate one's seed corn, past participle eaten one's seed corn)
Senses:
glosses: To consume what is meant for investment instead.
tags: idiomatic
informal
Forms:
form: eats one's seed corn
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eating one's seed corn
tags: participle
present
form: ate one's seed corn
tags: past
form: eaten one's seed corn
tags: participle
past
form: eat the seed corn
tags: alternative