英语词组brew up是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

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brew up

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Phr V

brew up

brews, brewing, brewed

brew up sth

British, American & Australian informal

brew up

British & Australian informal to make a drink {e.g. tea, coffee}, usually in a pot

You sit there and I'll brew up a nice cup of tea for you.I'm brewing up if you'd like a cuppa.

brew up sth or brew sth up

to do or plan something that will cause trouble

I don't know what you're brewing up, but I don't want any part of it.

brew up

if a difficult situation brews up, it starts to developusually in continuous tenses

A nasty row is brewing up over the meeting between the two countries.

brew up

verb to make tea UK, 1916

phrasebrew up1. brew up • brew up sth BrE informal to make a drink of tea or coffee: Every two hours the men would stop work to brew up and have a cigarette. I spent the day reading novels and brewing up endless cups of tea.2. be brewing up especially BrE if trouble or a situation in which people argue or fight with each other is brewing up, it is starting to develop: The CIA were aware that a civil war was brewing up in Nicaragua.3. brew up sth • brew sth up usually progressive to secretly plan something that will cause trouble: I knew that the kids were brewing something up but I wasn't sure what it was. Racist organizations are brewing up mischief wherever they can.4. brew up sth to make a mixture of drugs, medicines etc: We found him in his laboratory, brewing up a strange concoction of psychedelic drugs.

brew up (something)

1. To make a beverage (often coffee or tea) by brewing. You better brew up a pot of coffee—it's going to be a long night.

2. To prepare or incite something. What are you kids whispering about back there? You better not be brewing up trouble!

brew something up

1. Lit. to brew something, as in making coffee or tea. Can somebody brew some coffee up? Let me brew up a pot of tea, and then we'll talk.

2. Fig. to cause something to happen; to foment something. I could see that they were brewing some kind of trouble up. Don't brew up any trouble!

brew up

Fig. to build up; [for something] to begin to build and grow. (Typically said of a storm.) A bad storm is brewing up in the west. Something serious is brewing up in the western sky.

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