make mincemeat of

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Also, make hamburger of . Thrash, beat decisively, as in That bully will make mincemeat of my son , or The other team will make hamburger out of us . This idiom alludes to finely chopping up meat. The first term dates from about 1700, the variant from the first half of the 1900s.

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