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make mincemeat of

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  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.


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

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Built like a traction engine, with forearms like Popeye, Anderson is the kind of big-hitting middle-order batsmen who can make mincemeat of most totals.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2015

Local treasures Adam Blumenfeld and Jeanne Sakata make mincemeat of Dr. Bartholo and Marceline, especially riotous at the tribunal to stake her claim on Figaro.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2015

Computers can make mincemeat of chess masters and vanquish the champions of “Jeopardy!”

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2012

They seemed to think that the Enemy was looking high and low for me, and would make mincemeat of me, if he caught me tottering about in the Wild.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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