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chew on
vb. (context transitive idiomatic English) to consider, to ponder
Usage examples of "chew on".
Then I taught Ready Teddy to chase it, and chew on it, and play keep-away with it in the cool December air.
For a moment, he was tempted to chew on it himself, but he didn't have the teeth or the stomach for it.
Alpha Centauri would chew on the terror of an entire world, grind it up, and swallow it whole.
The mouth closed and started to chew on the information with the oversized molars that Bill had only glimpsed.
The next time you stand and sing the National Anthem, friends and neighbors, chew on this: America is dead, dead as a doornail, dead as Jacob Marley and Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper and Harry S Truman, but the principles just propounded by Mr.