chew on
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chew on (third-person singular simple present chews on, present participle chewing on, simple past and past participle chewed on)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chew, on.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To consider, to ponder.
- 2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in Wired[1], →ISSN:
- Once you chew on it that way, you start thinking, jeez, maybe QAnon was almost inevitable.