off the horn

English

Prepositional phrase

off the horn

  1. (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
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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