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Mincemeat

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mince⋅meat

[mins-meet]
–noun
1. a mixture composed of minced apples, suet, and sometimes meat, together with raisins, currants, candied citron, etc., for filling a pie.
2. anything cut up very small, esp. meat.
3. make mincemeat of, to destroy utterly: He made mincemeat of his opponent's charges.

Origin:
1655–65; mince + meat
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mince·meat   (mĭns'mēt')   
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.

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mincemeat

see make mincemeat of.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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