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chew the cud

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chew the cud  (informal)
to think about something carefully and for a long time He sat chewing the cud all morning.
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Which sentiment being a pretty hard morsel, and bearing something of the air of a paradox, we shall leave the reader to chew the cud upon it to the end of the chapter.
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