chew one's

chew one's
chew one's
cud Fig. to think deeply; to be deeply involved in private thought. (Alludes to the cow's habit of bringing food back from the first stomach into the mouth to chew it, called chewing the cud.) •

He's chewing his cud about what to do next.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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