horse and rabbit stew

Meaning: (idiomatic)A mixture of the crude and the delicate in grossly unequal quantities, with the crude overwhelmingly dominant.1985, Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette,Science policy, ethics, and economic methodology, page172:Also, in alleging that nonmarket parameters are not measurable, in some sense, proponents of the argument fromhorse and rabbit stewappear to forget that ...1984, Myron S. Harrison,Developing Multinational Teams, page49:a Filipino representative at the Greenlake, 1981 conference said that the ‘…partnership is often like the proverbial “horse and rabbit stew” supposedly mixed in equal proportions, that is, one horse to one rabbit.'

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