strong meat

British  

noun

1. anything arousing fear, anger, repulsion, etc, except among a tolerant or receptive minority

   some scenes in the film were strong meat

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Example Sentences

It worked the dogs harder than the light aluminum and plastic sleds and so we started them right off on a strong meat diet: beef hearts, which we purchased in sixty-pound boxes and cut into small one-inch chunks when we fed.

From Literature

It was true of course, though sprinkled with little inaccuracies that added to the story, making it strong meat for the hundreds of readers who wanted value for their pennies.

From Literature

“Crawford is strong meat,” says one New Zealand acquaintance.

From The Wall Street Journal

But strong meat as it was for a corporate Hollywood franchise aimed at 15-year-olds, The Hunger Games put quote marks around its most radical ideas.

From The Guardian

Left to my own devices, I’m sure I would have found “The Fellowship of the Ring” and “Dune,” but I doubt that I would have picked up a novel like Jim Thompson’s “The Grifters,” the title of which meant nothing to me, and the cover of which bore an illustration of a simian-faced man, a morose woman smoking a cigarette, and a pair of large dice, perched atop a worrisome blurb from the Boston Globe that cautioned, “Strong meat.”

From The New Yorker