eat dirt

I really believe, that if I refused her, or called the boy Tom, she would eat dirt.

Not more than any other youngster did he like to eat dirt or to be misjudged, but he saw himself in a cleft stick.

They eat dirt, they sleep in dirt, they breathe dirt 'til their backs are bent, their hands twisted an' warped.

He would, he said, make them eat dirt, the vilest and most loathsome of all dirt.

His proud soul must eat dirt, if need be, for the sake of eighty pounds.