make mincemeat of

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Kennedy was the “kind of man Mr. Khrushchev will make mincemeat of,” Nixon charged.

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One of the nation’s best aerial games will make mincemeat of CU’s porous pass defense.

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Close all the way except in one respect: The final score will make mincemeat of the total.

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“Trump would make mincemeat of @Joe Biden.”

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The powers that be in music and television managed to make mincemeat of Napster and call Netflix names, only to watch the ongoing digital army advance anyway.

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