chew cud イディオム
Chew the cud
If you chew the cud, you think carefully about something.
take up the cudgels for|cudgel|cudgels|take|take u
v. phr.,
literary To come to the defense of; to support or fight for.
He was the first to take up the cudgels for his friend. Compare: STAND UP FOR.
cud
cud chew the cud to recall and think over something; ruminate; ponder
cudgel
cudgel 1.
cudgel one's brains to think hard
2.
take up the cudgels (for) to come to the defense (of)
cudgel one's brains
cudgel one's brains see
rack one's brain.
chew the/(one's) cud
To contemplate something. ("Cud" is partially digested aliment that is regurgitated to be chewed again, a accepted behavior of cows.) I've been chewing my cud for days, but I still haven't absitively whether I'm demography the job or not. Sometimes you aloof charge to stop chewing the cud and accomplish a decision.Learn more: chew, cudchew one's cud
Fig. to anticipate deeply; to be acutely complex in clandestine thought. (Alludes to the cow's addiction of bringing aliment aback from the aboriginal abdomen into the aperture to bite it, alleged chewing the cud.) He's chewing his cud about what to do next.Learn more: chew, cud