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As A Figure of Speech

Mirepoix consists of carrot, onion and celery and is often used for soup stocks and soups. The word soup has developed several uses in phrases referring to different meanings like alphabet soup, duck soup, and stone soup. In the Filipino language, the direct translation for soup, sabaw, is used as a figure of speech referring to moments where one cannot think straight or when someone says something nonsensical.

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As A Figure of Speech

Mirepoix consists of carrot, onion and celery and is often used for soup stocks and soups. The word soup has developed several uses in phrases referring to different meanings like alphabet soup, duck soup, and stone soup. In the Filipino language, the direct translation for soup, sabaw, is used as a figure of speech referring to moments where one cannot think straight or when someone says something nonsensical.

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As a figure of speech

Mirepoix consists of carrot, onion and celery and is often used for soup stocks and soups.

In the English language, the word soup has developed several uses in phrase.

 Alphabet soup, a large number of acronyms used by an administration; the term has its
roots in a common tomato-based soup containing pasta shaped in the letters of
the alphabet
 Duck soup, a simple soup, stands for a task that is particularly easy
 "From soup to nuts" means "from beginning to end", referring to the traditional position of
soup as the first course in a multi-course meal
 "In the soup" refers to being in a bad situation[20]
 Pea soup fog, a type of very thick fog caused by air pollution, heavily associated
with London
 Primordial soup, the organic mixture leading to the development of life
 Soup kitchen, a place that serves prepared food of any kind to the homeless or needy
 Stone soup, a popular children's fable about a poor man who encourages villagers to
share their food with him by telling them that he can make soup with a stone
 Souperism, the practice of bible societies during the Irish Great Famine to feed the
hungry in exchange for religious instruction. The expression 'took the soup' is used to
refer to those who converted at the behest of these organizations' offers of food
 Tag soup, poorly coded HTML
The direct translation for soup in the Filipino language, sabaw, is used as a figure of speech,
referring to moments where one is unable to think straight, as if one's brain is empty, much like a
bowl of soup devoid of any ingredients. It can also refer to someone who says something that makes
no sense, thereby referring to them as sabog.[21]

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