WHAT'S COOKING Definition & Meaning

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Also, what's new (with you) ; what's up ; what gives . What's going on, what is happening, as in What's cooking at the office these days? or What's new at your house? or Why are all those cars honking their horns? What's up? or Are you really going to France next week? What gives? The first expression, slang from about 1940, transfers the process of preparing food to other processes. The first variant, a version of “what news are there,” dates from the same period and was given added currency by a popular film and song, What's New, Pussycat? (1965); the title itself became an idiom for a time, what's new, pussycat ? The second variant, a colloquialism from the first half of the 1900s, gained currency in the 1940s from Bugs Bunny cartoons in which the rabbit repeatedly says “What's up, Doc?” The last variant, what gives , may derive from the German equivalent, Was gibt's? Slang from about 1940, it is also used to mean “how are you,” as in Hello Jack—what gives? Also see what's with .

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The Chrisley family launched to reality TV fame in 2013 with the debut of USA Network’s “Chrisley Knows Best,” and inspired a reality TV empire in the following years including the E! spinoff “Growing Up Chrisley” and Julie’s web cooking series “What’s Cooking With Julie Chrisley.”

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There’s a charming movie from 2000 called “What’s Cooking?”

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The Senate is starkly different from what’s cooking in the Republican-run House.

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Julie even hosted the cooking web series “What’s Cooking With Julie Chrisley” on the USA Network website.

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Her menu isn’t a clone of what’s cooking in Falls Church.

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