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Agitated, alarmed, or anxious. For example, Mary was in a stew about how her cake was going to turn out . It is also put as get in or into a stew , as in Every Saturday the minister got in a stew about Sunday's sermon . This expression transfers the mixture of meat and vegetables constituting a stew to overheated mixed emotions. [c. 1800]

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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