make mincemeat of

Idioms and Phrases

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.

Related Words

• bang
• belt
• blast
• burst
• collide
• crack
• crash
• crush
• demolish
• fracture
• hit
• shatter
• slam
• smash up
• trash