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A mixture that sounds suspicious even when it's just soup.
means A mixture of ingredients or ideas put together, often one that seems improvised, suspicious, or too clever by half.
from From Latin 'concoquere' — 'con-' (together) plus 'coquere' (to cook). It originally meant literally cooking or digesting things together, boiling ingredients down into one mass, before stretching in the 1600s to cover any suspiciously clever mixture of ideas, excuses, or plans — the kitchen sense simmering into the metaphorical one.
- word origin
- from Latin concoquere, to boil together
- original meaning
- once meant digesting food, not mixing it
- usage tell
- implies the mixer is slightly unhinged
- common pairing
- almost always preceded by weird or suspicious