make mincemeat of somebody/something
(redirected from make mincemeat of somebody)make mincemeat (out) of someone
and make hamburger (out) of someoneFig. to beat or pound someone or something; to treat someone or something roughly. (As if chopping someone up.) If you don't behave, I'll make mincemeat out of you. Do you want Fred to make hamburger out of you?
make mincemeat of
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.
make mincemeat of
defeat decisively or easily in a fight, contest, or argument. informalmake ˈmincemeat of somebody/something
(informal) defeat somebody completely in a fight, argument, etc.; completely destroy somebody’s argument, theory, etc: France made mincemeat of Portugal, beating them 5 goals to nil. ♢ The professor made mincemeat of the speaker at the conference.make mincemeat of
Slang To destroy utterly: made mincemeat of the opponent's argument.