What is "cooking up"

Usage examples of "cooking up".

That was a relief, but he wasn't too relieved, because he wasn't sure where the demoness was or what other mischief she was cooking up.

Not only had most of the summer vacationers gone home, but civic-awareness groups and enthusiastic foodies were cooking up a savory kettle of stew called the Great Food Explo.

And sometimes she would get off the phone looking worried, and absentmindedly accept Budur's hugs and admit that this was precisely the case: the ilmi, the scientists, were indeed cooking up a new world.

He prescribed a medicine, which, to make business still better, he himself manufactured by cooking up grass, leaves, herbs, roots which he was certain would not harm even a baby.

Imagine people getting ready for the horrible sort of war they were cooking up.

Though the blow came as no surprise to me -- I had suspected that my son was cooking up something against me -- I nevertheless made a dash for my drum in Matzerath's grave.

I was checking out reports that a pharmaceutical factory was cooking up an­.

Over in Hal's barn they're cooking up a god-awful brew that Forrester says will be mustard gas, but he's not sure how long it takes to finish the reaction.

Over in Hal's barn they're cooking up a godawful brew that Forrester says will be mustard gas, but he's not sure how long it takes to finish the reaction.

I didn't ask him and Steed to take me in on whatever job it is they're cooking up.

Of course, I haven't the faintest notion of what you're cooking up with those British fellows.