WordNet
eat on
v. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" [syn: eat]
Usage examples of "eat on".
If you simply closed your eyes and threw your spear, why, there would be something good to eat on the end of it.
With the very weeds growing higher than our heads, we should raise plenty of good stuff to eat on this land, if we can't afford anything else but taxes.