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food for thought

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Noun1.food for thought - anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
intellectual nourishment, food
cognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
pabulum - insipid intellectual nourishment


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This observation furnished the detective food for thought, and meanwhile the consul went away to his office.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
This little pout had furnished Gringoire with food for thought.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
He had time, in passing along the Rue des Petits-Champs, to see something which afforded him plenty of food for thought and conjecture.
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