eat the onion (English, verb)
expansion: eat the onion (third-person singular simple present eats the onion, present participle eating the onion, simple past ate the onion, past participle eaten the onion)
Senses:
glosses: To unwittingly take a work of satire as literal fact, particularly a piece published by The Onion.
tags: idiomatic
informal
Forms:
form: eats the onion
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eating the onion
tags: participle
present
form: ate the onion
tags: past
form: eaten the onion
tags: participle
past
form: eat The Onion
tags: alternative