eat dirt

I am glad when men who live by dirty ways are made to eat dirt.

"Servia will have to eat dirt," said Larry when he had finished.

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

I'm ready to eat dirt, if need be, but for a fire-eating parson I still think I did pretty well!

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

To eat dirt is bad enough, but to find that we have eaten more than was necessary may chance to give us an indigestion.

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.