chicken soup

English

Etymology

The figurative sense comes from the fact that a folk remedy for colds is serving such soup.

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Noun

chicken soup (countable and uncountable, plural chicken soups)

  1. Any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient.
    Hypernym: soup
    Hyponym: chicken noodle soup
    He should have guessed that her great-great-grandmother's secret chicken soup recipe was a can from the store.
  2. (figuratively) A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.
    Synonym: chicken noodle soup
    Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing.
  3. (figuratively) A mixed-up mush.
    His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.
  4. (biochemistry, slang, historical) The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life.

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