feed off
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feed off (third-person singular simple present feeds off, present participle feeding off, simple past and past participle fed off)
- (transitive, of an animal) To consume as part of a diet.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To get stimulus from (an external object).
- It seems like her boss feeds off her unhappiness.