in the soup
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“It felt like what the moment called for. I was definitely in the soup already,” she says, writing songs for “Virgin” — “dropping all guard and being radically transparent,” as she puts it.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025
The rice cake soup is made with a base of either beef broth or anchovy broth, seasoned and boiled with flat, oval-shaped rice cakes that become soft and chewy in the soup.
From Salon • Jan. 11, 2024
The market may be "back in the soup on the banking crisis," said Chuck Carlson, chief executive officer at Horizon Investment Services.
From Reuters • May 3, 2023
Ultimately, you strain the stock and pull the chicken off the bone to use in the soup.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023
That was okay too, because now I got all the chicken and the vegetables in the soup with warm corn tortillas and my mother’s sopa de arroz.
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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