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 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
Like salt, the lemon doesn't only lend its own flavor, it helps to embolden other flavors in the soup itself, amplifying all of the other ingredients to their best and brightest.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2023
“We have two different places where we get it. We definitely know one place is better than the other, and the rice cakes hold in the soup better and become softer faster,” Kim said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 18, 2023
By Thursday nights, the Sunday chicken that Grandma had roasted was down to a few threads in the soup we would eat.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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