chew on
verb1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chew, on.
2
Idiomatic To consider, to ponder.
- Once you chew on it that way, you start thinking, jeez, maybe QAnon was almost inevitable.2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in Wired, →ISSN: