| 释义 |
chew the cud1(Of a ruminant animal) further chew partly digested food.We can't worry about not eating shellfish or animals that chew the cud....- Only those animals having divided hooves and chewing the cud are permitted - in practice, cow, sheep, goat, and deer, but not pig, camel, horse, or rabbit.
- And in the later years, like an old buffalo, sometimes undependable, sluggish, mule-ish, she has a tendency to stop when and where she wants to, chewing the cud in the middle of the road.
2British Think or talk reflectively: we chewed the cud and drank a few beers...- I have never found that that I was helped by clinging to the memory of the wrong done me nor by chewing the cud of bitterness and savoring the thought of some exquisite punishment being meted out to them.
- I was sitting around yesterday, chewing the cud with the fellows, solving the problems of the world, and watching a little rugby out of the corner of my eye.
- Some of the more quick-witted locals are chewing the cud, and guess what they are beginning to wonder if there's a link between the letter and the plane crash.
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