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Food for thought
Meaning Something that merits serious reflection or gives the mind material to ponder. It appears almost exclusively as the object of 'give', 'offer', or 'provide', said of reports, remarks, statistics, and…
Also known as give someone food for thought · offer food for thought · plenty of food for thought · provide food for thought
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Dogfooding
Meaning … Chiefly software-industry usage; occurs as the verb 'to dogfood' and in the fuller expression 'eating your own dog food'. Neutral-to-wry jargon rather than slang. Insider jargon with a mildly comic image…
Also known as dogfood (verb) · drinking your own champagne · eat your own dog food · eating your own dog food
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Cannon fodder
Meaning Soldiers regarded by their commanders as expendable raw material to be consumed by the enemy's guns; by extension, anyone used thoughtlessly to further someone else's aims, especially in a struggle they did…
Also known as fodder for the guns · food for powder · gun fodder