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mincemeat

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mince·meat  (mnsmt)
n.
1. A mixture, as of finely chopped apples, raisins, spices, meat, and rum or brandy, used especially as a pie filling.
2. Finely chopped meat.
Idiom:
make mincemeat of Slang
To destroy utterly: made mincemeat of the opponent's argument.

mincemeat
Noun
1. a mixture of dried fruit and spices used for filling pies
2. make mincemeat of Informal to defeat completely
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.mincemeat - spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat
concoction, intermixture, mixture - any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade"
Translations
mincemeat [ˈmɪnsmiːt] nconserva de fruta picada
mincemeat [ˈmɪnsmiːt] mince nhachis de fruits secs utilisés en pâtisserie;
(US) → viande hachée, hachis m
mincemeat [ˈmɪnsmiːt] mince nsüße Gebäckfüllung aus Dörrobst und Sirup;
(US) (meat) → Hackfleisch nt;
to make mincemeat of sb mince (inf) → Hackfleisch aus jdm machen
mincemeat [ˈmɪnsmiːt] nfrutta secca tritata per uso in pasticceria


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We'll make mincemeat of the girl and hash of the chicken and sausage of the dog
I stole some bread, some rind of cheese, about half a jar of mincemeat (which I tied up in my pocket-handkerchief with my last night's slice), some brandy from a stone bottle (which I decanted into a glass bottle I had secretly used for making that intoxicating fluid, Spanish-liquorice-water, up in my room: diluting the stone bottle from a jug in the kitchen cupboard), a meat bone with very little on it, and a beautiful round compact pork pie.
 
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