chicken soup
A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problemsA cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.
Meaning
3 senses(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.
Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)A mixed-up mush.
His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.
(countable, historical, slang, uncountable)The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life.
- soup made from chicken broth
Examples
27 sentencesOrigin
Originally, any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingreOriginally, any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient. The figurative sense comes from the fact that the soup is a folk remedy for colds.
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Forms
plural: chicken soups| Singular | chicken soup |
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Synonyms
2 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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