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語源

The figurative sense comes from the fact that the soup is a folk remedy for colds.

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名詞

chicken soup (countable and uncountable, plural chicken soups)

1. (Should we delete this sense?) Any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient.

   Hypernym: soup

   Hyponym: chicken noodle soup

   He should have guessed that her great-great-grandmother's secret chicken soup recipe was a can from the store.

   Chicken soup is proverbial as a wholesome food whose nutrients will help your body recover from illness.

2. (figuratively) A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.

   Synonyms: chicken noodle soup, panacea

   Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing.

3. (Can we verify this sense?) (figuratively) A mixed-up mush.

   His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.

4. (biochemistry, slang, historical) The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life.