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What does "eating me alive" mean?

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Rebecca

"Eating me alive" means that something is making someone feel a lot of guilt, pain, or suffering. Joey is saying that keeping the secret is causing him to suffer from guilt. Ex: Keeping secrets will eat you alive. Ex: Lying to my friends was eating me alive.

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