eat the onion

See also: eat The Onion

English

Alternative forms

  • eat The Onion

Verb

eat the onion (third-person singular simple present eats the onion, present participle eating the onion, simple past ate the onion, past participle eaten the onion)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To unwittingly take a work of satire as literal fact, particularly a piece published by The Onion.
    No, the original plan for Chicago's street layout was not scribbled on the back of a napkin by an ancestor of Roger Ebert; you just ate the onion.

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