Would you like the alphabet soup?

Today’s English
April 11th, 2017

Everyone would like soup, but not the alphabet soup. What does it mean? A confusing mixture of things, especially abbreviations and acronyms is known as “alphabet soup".

1.Computer engineering often threatens everyone with its alphabet soup.
2.I don’t know any of these abbreviations. They simply stand alphabet soup to me.

If you are in an unpleasant or difficult situation, you can use the expression “to be in the soup"

1.Bro, please help me. I’m in the soup now.
2.If a country’s economy is in the soup, who will invest?

There is one more useful expression with soup – “from soup to nuts" that is equivalent to “from a to z", meaning “completely” or “covering the whole range" or "from beginning to the end".

1.He knows computer from a to z / from soup to nuts.
2.Don’t tell a lie. I know about you from a to z.

(Life is like the alphabet soup that is too short to understand from soup to nuts, isn’t it?)