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food for thought

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food for thought
something worth thinking about seriously. Thanks for your suggestion — it gave us lots of food for thought.
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This observation furnished the detective food for thought, and meanwhile the consul went away to his office.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
This little pout had furnished Gringoire with food for thought.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
He had time, in passing along the Rue des Petits-Champs, to see something which afforded him plenty of food for thought and conjecture.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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