not fit to eat
Example Sentences
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Meat that is not fit for a sacrifice is, to the orthodox, not fit to eat.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a host offered his guests food, he first apologized that it was not fit to eat.
From Time Magazine Archive
He said that hares were not fit to eat unless they had fed chiefly on thyme, and that a starling had no value in the kitchen until it had been feeding on juniper berries.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
“Oh! you may eat it, sir; I don’t say it’s not fit to eat, but there are other things much better.”
From The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat
Fresh bread is not fit to eat, for it is very rarely properly masticated and if it is merely moistened and converted into a soggy mass in the mouth it is hard to digest.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
