brewing up
Preparing hot drinks
Brewing up means preparing tea, especially in British usage: Let me brew up before we start.
The phrase also describes something gradually forming or developing, particularly trouble or bad weather: There's a storm brewing up, I could feel an argument brewing up between them.
- fomentingActively stirring up discord
- ideatingForming mental concepts
- stirringArousing strong emotion
- cooking upPreparing or scheming
- decoctionBoiled herbal concentrate
steeping · percolation · escalating · maceration · cultivating · infusion · conjuring · working up · in the works · boiling · agitating · inciting · generating · provoking · brainstorming · fermentation · intensifying · gathering steam
development/formation process
brewing updying down
Decreasing in force
dissipating · fizzling out · calming down · subsiding · blowing over
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