3. Explain the term 'chewing the cud?
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Answer:
Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination. The idiomatic expression chewing one's cud means meditating or pondering; similar expressions such as "he chewed that over for a bit", or "chew on that!" likely have the same derivation.
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Explanation:
Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination. The idiomatic expression chewing one's cud means meditating or pondering; similar expressions such as "he chewed that over for a bit", or "chew on that!" likely have the same derivation.
Ponder over, meditate, as in John tends to chew the cud before he answers, or Let me chew that over and let you know. ... The first term, first recorded in 1382, transfers the appearance of a patiently ruminating cow to a person deep in thought.