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in a stew

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  1. Agitated, alarmed, or anxious. For example, Mary was in a stew about how her cake was going to turn out. It is also put as, as in Every Saturday the minister got in a stew about Sunday's sermon. This expression transfers the mixture of meat and vegetables constituting a stew to overheated mixed emotions. [c. 1800]


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Some preferred to include it in a stew, while others salivated over the golden-brown fried option.

From BBC May 11, 2024

I genuinely might have been fooled that it was an actual chunk of roast if it were in a stew or already shredded on a plate.

From The Verge Aug. 25, 2022

What does all this mean for the big-picture goal of not cooking the Earth in a stew of carbon dioxide?

From Slate Dec. 6, 2021

Unlike many industrial chemicals, enzymes work at relatively low temperatures and are choosy about which molecule they interact with—enabling an enzyme to target a single plastic in a stew of polymers.

From Science Magazine Jul. 1, 2021

And as much as I loved holding a cottontail in my arms and rubbing its soft fur with my cheek, I loved it even more in a stew with a few carrots.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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