chicken soup
Meanings
noun
- Any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient.
- A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.
- A mixed-up mush.
- The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life.
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Etymology
The figurative sense comes from the fact that the soup is a folk remedy for colds.
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