I'm afraid though these brutes have made mincemeat of them.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
He was so accustomed to the cheap triumphs that judges look to win in court that he had expected to make mincemeat of this poor, broken old man whom the law had delivered to his tender mercy.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain
It was while the crowd was howlin' and pinnin' the fakir's tag on him that he began to froth at the mouth and tell how he was comin' down to make mincemeat of me.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford