Be on
Be on verb - Appear in a show, on T.V. or radio.
Both terms in one sentence
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He might technically be on the bad guy's side but you never see him do anything but eat and make himself look like an idiot.
Source: Western Animation / A Bug's Life -
Used in Metalocalypse when the members of Dethklok snuck into a closet to eat food, since they were supposed to be on diets.
Source: By the Lights of Their Eyes -
The entire world is known, not only feared, to be on the fast track to destruction, and society is more dog-eat-dog than ever before.
Source: Crapsaccharine World
Cite this Source
Eat and Be on. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/be_on/eat
Be on & Eat. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/be_on/eat>.
Eat or Be on. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/be_on/eat.
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