Do you know what "Ate up" is?

[underpants]

I can't say I'd heard of until I was in the Army. I posed this as a general question in case it's common knowledge.

Being "Ate up" is a nasty state. Watching someone go through it is truly painful.

What is it?
"Ate up" is a mental place where a person screws up then is so worried about that mistake they don't focus on the next thing aaaand they screw that up. They are so scared of punishment that it's all they think about. One small mistake followed by another and another.... Often they go back and try to fix two or three errors ago.

There are degrees of it too. There's "Ate up" and then there's "Ate the ____ up".

It's really horrible to see as I said. The remedy is one small easy task followed by reward, repeat.

Trump appears to be Ate up.
The tweet to instruct people to watch the lady on Fox last night seems to be him trying to continue fighting getting caught in the wire tapping lie, as I read on another thread. He's screwing up repeatedly and trying to correct two or three screwups ago.

[pintobean]

1. 8↑

[underpants]

5. Indeed

I was going to add this as an edit but I'll put it here.

First - we are really vulnerable. If something large were to happen we are basically leaderless. If something requiring military action the brass would have to make some decisions with little or no civilian influence. I trust them but our structure requires civilian oversight. Mattis would weigh largely in such a situation.

Second - Bannon spent 8 years in the Navy. They may have an equivalent, I don't know. He may want Trump this way or he may have another angle. Trump doing the Keystone signing Friday morning looked a lot like the remedy I mentioned in the OP.

[Beartracks]

27. Missed that - What Keystone signing?

[spanone]

38. trump ok'd the keystone pipeline on friday.

[furtheradu]

6. HA!

Pinto Bean!

[Bucky]

13. Thank you

I assumed it meant either age 9 or older or it was a mixed drink using 7UP

[Different Drummer]

33. ...

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I don't know if it's a regional saying or not, but living in the South,

I am quite familiar with the phrase and have seen the embodiment on many occasions.

[japple]

24. I always thought it was a Southern thing, too. "That dog is all ate up with mange."

I've usually heard it applied to some sort of hideous physical affliction. "That boy is all ate up with poison ivy."

[Arkansas Granny]

36. Oh, you can be "ate up" with lots of things. Envy, jealous, stupidity and the list goes on.

[Go Vols]

40. +1

[Foamfollower]

3. Trump is all ate the fuck up with the dumbass shit

That's what my drill sergeant would have said about it, any way.

[underpants]

8. Whew! Basic training Ate up was really tough

Everything just changed and then you get Ate up. It was almost always a matter of the fellow lower ranks to build them back up. The only beating I saw in basic was a guy who got Ate up without us knowing it. Totally internal. He screwed up big and ..... myself and the other shithouse lawyers who ran the platoon stepped outside for a few minutes.

[furtheradu]

21. Army Ate Up is SERIOUSLY Ate Up

Yikes!

[3catwoman3]

41. Your drill sergeant...

...would have been quite correct.

[furtheradu]

4. Where I'm from. . .

We say someone's "ate up with the dumb ass".


Your "ate up" sounds scarier!
& I think both versions apply to trump.

[trof]

7. Yep, 'AWL ate up...'

[furtheradu]

9. Yes! THAT'S it!

[underpants]

11. Apparently I just missed it

It is scary. We seem to be witnessing it collectively.

[furtheradu]

20. You may have "just missed it"

Cuz You ain't all ate up with the da & didn't hang with those that were.

Yep, we ALL are getting a lesson in it NOW! 😒

[klook]

30. In some parts of the South it's

"eat up with the dumbass." As in "Thet boah is jes' eat up with the dumbass." You might also throw in, "Looks like somebody hit 'im with tha ugly stick, too!"

[furtheradu]

39. Yeahhh,BUDDY!

[GulfCoast66]

10. Heard and used it all my life

Assume it is a southern colloquialism

Can be used in lots of different ways:

he's all ate up with that girl

He's ate up with the gators losin'

he's all ate up with the dumbass

Really anything that has an unnatural hold on you.

[panader0]

12. "Ate up with ignorance" is the way I heard it most.

[roscoeroscoe]

14. Army slang

Ate up like a soup sandwich

[putitinD]

15. in my neck of the woods, it means severely addicted to drugs!

[alfredo]

35. Look at Steve Bannon's Gin Blossoms, that guy is ate up.

[Heartstrings]

16. This Yank

has never heard the term, has it instilled in my brain, and shall use it whenever possible as it has a really nice ring to it!!

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended.

[NRaleighLiberal]

18. my lunch?

[pnwest]

19. I've heard it as a southern thing, too. Generally

used as "crazy in the head". I had a friend from Kentucky who I could crack up all the time. She'd be laughing and would tell me I was "ate up". She was not wrong

[alterfurz]

22. another relevant militarism

"If you ain't slick enough to get away with it, you deserve to get your ass hung."

[alphafemale]

23. He/She's "ate up."

Obsessed with something or somebody that they can't function and are of no use.

Is another use I have heard.

[OKNancy]

29. that's my definition too

[Stuart G]

25. Yes.....k and r....

[samnsara]

26. yeah Ive heard of it....

...both my parents are from the south and I remember gramma saying she was all ate up inside when she was worried.

[OKNancy]

28. most often heard around here as "ate up with jealousy"

It means completely consumed with whatever it is referring to

[sarge43]

31. Zoomer take on Ate Up: Maniacal obsession

"Shit! Command's ate up about that new OI."

Trump is ate up about Trump. If it's not about him or what he values, it doesn't exist.

[magicarpet]

32. awl ate up......

To be totally consumed by. I'm
To be obsessively enthralled.
To be single mindedness about problems or difficulties to the point of blowing them out of proportion in accordance with reality.

[tirebiter]

34. My Okie parents

pronounced it as "et up"