chicken soup
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- noun
- /ˈtʃɪkɪn suːp/
:
sopa de pollo
- Should have taken the chicken soup.
- cream of chicken soup
- bowl of chicken soup
- homemade chicken soup
So I've just made some Heinz chicken soup, the good old Heinz chicken soup.
- So I've just made some Heinz chicken soup, the good old Heinz chicken soup.
- But since I've been in New York City, I've got twice now chicken soup.
- And the best way I describe it as I put too much into my my recipe, like, chefs can make the same chicken soup.
Examples
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The broth may be a clear chicken soup or thickened with flour or cream.
Blog text (17) -
Some chicken soup and a good night's sleep will not make it go away.
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I made a chicken soup, but...
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I brought you some chicken soup.
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just stay in bed a couple of days and drink a lot of hot chicken soup
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I hope it's all right if I come over now and then with chicken soup or something.
Fiction book (1997) -
I heard you were sick, so I brought you some of my homemade chicken soup.
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We're having some chicken soup with semolina dumplings.
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Rebecca arrived that evening with a pot of homemade chicken soup for Kimberly.
Fiction book (1995) -
I heard you were sick, so I brought you some of my homemade chicken soup.
Synonyms
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A hot dish of meat, fish, or vegetables cooked in water
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A soup with pieces of chicken, noodles, and vegetables in hot chicken broth
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A warm chicken soup people drink to feel better when they have a cold or minor illness
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a soup made with chicken' is directly and compositionally built from 'chicken' (the ingredient) + 'soup' (a liquid dish), so a learner who knows both nouns can readily infer the MWE. This is a regular noun–noun compound with a literal, cross-linguistically common structure and therefore immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Chicken soup comes from a simple home scene: people boil chicken to make a warm broth that is easy to eat and helps someone feel better. One popular story says families gave this warm, salty soup to sick people as a 'home remedy', so today chicken soup also means 'comfort food' or something that helps you when you are ill.