A sweet spicy mixture of candied and fresh fruits, wine, spices, and beef fat Earlier recipes for this used beef or venison meat and beef fat It is used primarily as a filling for pies served during the Christmas holiday season
If you make mincemeat of someone or make mincemeat out of them, you defeat them completely in an argument, fight, or competition. I can imagine a defence lawyer making mincemeat of him if we ever put him up in court
Operational code name for British deception operation in April 1943 where false operational plans were planted on a corpse and left floating off the coast of Spain - The Germans intercepted and believed the plans, which gave the impression that an Allied invasion of Greece was iminent, whereas the real invasion was planned for Sicily