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food for thought
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | food for thought - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinkingintellectual nourishment, foodcognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learnedpabulum - insipid intellectual nourishment |
Translationsfood for thought
food for thoughtSomething to consider. That meeting really gave me food for thought—I might invest in their company after all.See also: food, thoughtfood for thoughtFig. something for someone to think about; issues to be considered. Your essay has provided me with some interesting food for thought. My adviser gave me some food for thought about job opportunities.See also: food, thoughtfood for thoughtAn idea or issue to ponder, as in That interesting suggestion of yours has given us food for thought. This metaphoric phrase, transferring the idea of digestion from the stomach to mulling something over in the mind, dates from the late 1800s, although the idea was also expressed somewhat differently at least three centuries earlier. See also: food, thoughtfood for thought COMMON If something gives you food for thought, it makes you think very hard about an issue. This Italian trip gave us all much food for thought. It was poor Alan dying like that, gave me food for thought.See also: food, thoughtfood for thought something that warrants serious consideration or reflection.See also: food, thoughtfood for ˈthought an event, a remark, a fact, etc. which should be considered very carefully because it is interesting, important, etc: The lectures were very interesting and gave much food for thought.See also: food, thoughtfood for thoughtSomething to ponder. This metaphor, which implies that the mind can chew or digest an idea, dates from the early nineteenth century, although words to that effect were cited by Erasmus in his Adagia of the sixteenth century (“Nor try to put courteous conversation into the minds of impudent men, for speech is the food of thought”). The modern cliché was used by Mark Twain (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, 1889): “There was food for thought there.”See also: food, thoughtSee FFT
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Synonyms for food for thoughtnoun anything that provides mental stimulus for thinkingSynonyms- intellectual nourishment
- food
Related Words- cognitive content
- mental object
- content
- pabulum
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