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Please, native English speakers, is used in your countries the phrasal verb " soup up" and the noun " to be in soup"? I know the meaning.
Thank you.
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Please, native English speakers, is used in your countries the phrasal verb " soup up" and the noun " to be in soup"? I know the meaning.
Thank you.
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Hi. "Soup up" is not used. "to be in the soup" is, meaning, as you know, to be in a bad situation, usually of your own making.
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Hi Andi
Thank you.
Maria da Conceição
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I agree with Kiwi Idiomas. Soup up is definitely used in the context of machinery such as cars, motorbikes, computers, and in the way he describes.
However, I have never heard "to be in soup".
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Thank you for commenting
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Contrary to what our learned American friend said that "Soup up" is not used..." I have to disagree. The idiom is certainly used in British English, and as far as I am aware, in American English also.
It basically means: to enhance or increase in appeal, power, performance, or intensity;
e.g. enhanced or increased in appeal, power, performance, or intensity; also : elaborate, embellished.
It is usually used to describe an improvement to a car or other machine.
Hope that helps
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