Eating a Picnic creates a flurry of wafer pieces, flying peanuts and chocolate crumbs. […] As well as being messy, Picnic happens to be a big eat – something of a consumption challenge in fact.

He's eating an apple. / Don't disturb me now; can't you see that I'm eating?

But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

Shepard: Everyone on this station is chafing under Anoleis' extortion. You might end up a hero.
Lorik Qui'in: My employers rely on the goodwill of the Executive Board to work here.
Wrex: If these "executives" don't blame Anoleis for provoking this, they're fools. You should eat them.

A bigger problem, however, is that if you catch/eat an exception and do nothing with it, you are very likely introducing subtle bugs in your application that will be next to impossible to track down.

I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.

The server made an error when taking the order. The bartender prepared two scorpion bowls. When the error was realized the bartender was faced with having to "eat" the extra scorpion bowl […]

When they were doing it with the valuation professionals, they were billing the client, but the valuation professional in a lot of those early cases had to eat the cost of showing the auditor how the auditors' test model was incorrect.

I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.

And, of course, there was Brian Rusk, who had eaten a bullet at the ripe old age of eleven.

Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.

Mike had been to other calls where someone had eaten a gun. He knew to expect teeth embedded in the ceiling and brains dripping off it.

The animal was sweating and scared and MacAdams was surprised when they finished up without either of them eating a kick.

There was a resounding smacking noise and Georgy was sure Philip had just eaten a fist.

The acid rain ate away the statue.  The strong acid eats through the metal.

English

eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die

sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you

the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet

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