202. Stew - IELTS Vocabulary - Stew / Stew In Your Own Juices / Horse and Rabbit stew

Stew : 스튜(기와 채소를 넣고 국물이 좀 있게 해서 천천히 끓인 요리), (음식을)뭉근하게 끓이다, 걱정하다, 불안해하다, 마음졸이다, 생각하다

Stew In Your Own Juices : 혼자 생각하다, 혼자 마음을 졸이다, 스스로 마음을 졸이다, 스스로 걱정을 해다

Let somebody stew in their own juice : ~의 자업자득이니 그대로 당해게 내버려 두다

Horse and rabbit stew : (특히 정치/경제에서) 좋은면과 나쁜면이 혼재하는 어려운 상황, but 나쁜면이 더 큰 상황

 

A type of food

To let something cook slowly, to boil slowly

vegetable stew 

Formality : 5

 

 

We often use this informally to mean, to be angry about something, to worried about something

Let him stew, to let him be in a state of worry or anxiety about something

He is in a stew about problem , he is very worried about it

Just let him stew in his own juices -> just let him, he was left to worry about things on his own

 

Horse and rabbit stew, this is difficult situation which has good side and bad side, normally bad side is greater than good side particulary in economy and business

 

It was really hot and humid yesterday, I was stewing

 

Formality : 4

 

 

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