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make mincemeat of

Idioms  

  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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And Freedman’s book misses no opportunity to make mincemeat of the worst sort of Edwardian nobles for their snobbery, colonial prejudices, eccentricities and general nastiness.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2016

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

The beauty, pride and common purpose that oozes from the performance make mincemeat of the cliches of chaos and hopelessness that burden the Congo.

From The Guardian • May 9, 2013

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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