in the soup

Example Sentences

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“He really loves to be in the soup in every aspect of the film, every department but especially the score. To him, it’s almost spiritual. We’re preparing this thing to set sail and it’s a very special period for him. I couldn’t deprive him of that. So essentially I was staying at my girlfriend’s place in Queens and we were working out of a 7-by-8 editing room in midtown. Also Sarah, his wife, was pregnant and gave birth during the creation of the score.”

From Los Angeles Times

“It felt like what the moment called for. I was definitely in the soup already,” she says, writing songs for “Virgin” — “dropping all guard and being radically transparent,” as she puts it.

From Los Angeles Times

Though we tend to toss homelessness in the soup pot along with mental illness and drug use, the terrifying fact is that nearly half of the folks living on our streets are over the age of 50 and wound up there because a bit of bad luck left them unable to pay the rent.

From Los Angeles Times

The rice cake soup is made with a base of either beef broth or anchovy broth, seasoned and boiled with flat, oval-shaped rice cakes that become soft and chewy in the soup.

From Salon

Then I took some of the leeks, pulled them out before cooking them in the soup, and then I fried them in ghee, and then put that on top as a topping.

From Salon