off the horn
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[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (humorous) Used to describe very hard steak, as though cut from the horn of the animal.
- 1955, Helen Ostler Wilson, Land of My Children, page 5:
- […] the butcher's joint of beef was undoubtedly a cut off the horn.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary