It's been decades since mincemeat contained anything resembling meat.
He makes mincemeat of intellectual pretensions and then, of course, laughs at pompous simpletons.
Imagine the scents wafting through the house, blending with the mouth-watering aromas of pumpkin and mincemeat pies.
British Dictionary definitions for mincemeat
mincemeat
/ˈmɪnsˌmiːt/
noun
1.
a mixture of dried fruit, spices, etc, used esp for filling pies
2.
minced meat
3.
(informal) make mincemeat of, to defeat completely
Word Origin and History for mincemeat
n.
1660s, originally in the figurative sense of what someone plans to make of his enemy, an alteration of earlier minced meat (1570s); from mince (v.) + meat (n.). Mince-pie is attested from c.1600; as rhyming slang for "eye" it is attested from 1857.