Eat at
Eat at verb - Become ground down or deteriorate.
Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Both terms in one sentence
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Of the two cops assigned to finding Nagel's murderer, one uses the investigation as a thin excuse to eat at restaurants, visit strip clubs, see a Moby concert, etc., and the other seems to believe this will genuinely help.
Source: Film / The Wrong Guy
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Help or Eat at. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/eat_at/help.
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