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food for thought

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food for thought
Fig. something for someone to think about; issues to be considered. Your essay has provided me with some interesting food for thought. My adviser gave me some food for thought about job opportunities.
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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.
This little pout had furnished Gringoire with food for thought.
He had time, in passing along the Rue des Petits-Champs, to see something which afforded him plenty of food for thought and conjecture.
 
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