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chew on (third-person singular simple present chews on, present participle chewing on, simple past and past participle chewed on)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chew,‎ on.
2. (transitive, idiomatic) To consider, to ponder.
   • 2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in Wired‎, →ISSN:

     Once you chew on it that way, you start thinking, jeez, maybe QAnon was almost inevitable.