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Difference between Stew in one’s own juice and Stew oneself

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stew in one’s own juice —(also: fry in one’s own grease) suffer the consequences of one’s own actions; be left to one’s own devices:

  • I left her to stew in her own juice for a week before I went to see her.

stew oneself—fret oneself into a state of heated anxiety:

  • The cashier was stewing himself over the sum of ￡10 which was missing.