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make mincemeat out of

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make mincemeat out of (third-person singular simple presentmakes mincemeat out of,present participlemaking mincemeat out of,simple past and past participlemade mincemeat out of)

(idiomatic) Todefeat one's opponent easily and completely during afight,contest, ordebate.
The invading armymade mincemeat out of our troops.
- 2007, Harry Lawson, Varghese Kattooparambil,Tom of Twofold Bay,→ISBN, page21:
  He had the uncanny ability to demolish his opponents with ease andmake mincemeat out of them.
- 2007, Karl Schroeder,Sun of Suns,→ISBN, page140:
  But the five ships on the other side of the mined zone weremaking mincemeat out of them anyway.
(idiomatic) To utterly destroy.
- 2016, Cathy Kelly,Secrets of a Happy Marriage,→ISBN:
  Hemade mincemeat out of that Evelyn Walker book he took over.