The lamest excuse for theft, violence, selling hard drugs, or other criminal activity.
Guy 1: I heard you mugged a kid for 50 bucks...
Guy 2: Yeah well whatever man, I gotta eat...
Guy 1: That kid's gotta eat too, everybody gotta eat, what's your point? You get food stamps every month anyway. Don't give me bullshit reasons for hurting innocent people, you sick twisted lowlife piece of shit. Get the fuck out my hood!
Sometimes you eat the bear ... and sometimes the bear eats you. Expression describing the bipolar nature of life, the universe and everything, popularised among other places in the movie The Big Lebowski and fifty percent proven, at any rate, by the life of Timothy Treadwell.
Well, dude, sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you. But why d'ya have to use so many cuss words along they way?