Soup - Soup As A Figure of Speech

Soup As A Figure of Speech

In the English language, the word "soup" has developed several uses in phrase.

• Alphabet soup, a large number of acronyms used by an administration. The term has its roots in a common tomato-based soup containing pasta shaped in the letters of the alphabet.
• Primordial soup, the organic mixture leading to the development of life.
• A soup kitchen, a place that serves prepared food of any kind to the homeless.
• Pea soup, a thick or dense fog.
• Soup legs, an informal term used by athletes to denote fatigue or exhaustion.
• "Stone soup", a popular children's fable.
• Duck soup, a task that is particularly easy.
• Word soup, to any collection of words that is ostensibly incomprehensible.
• Tag soup, poorly coded HTML.
• Soup Fire! an expression of surprise.
• Soupe du jour is French for "soup of the day." Sometimes used as a metaphor for anything currently trendy or fashionable.
• Soup to nuts, an American English idiom conveying the meaning "from beginning to end" (see: full course dinner).
• "Soup's on!" or "Soup's up!", common ways to indicate that a meal is ready ready to eat.
• Soup Sandwich is a denigrative U.S. military slang term, typically used to admonish a trooper for poor work or shoddy appearance. The term comes from the concept that a sandwich made of soup would be a sloppy mess.
• To soup something up is to improve it, or increase its power (most often used of cars, aeroplanes, and the like)- possibly from "supercharge".