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Meaning of horse and rabbit stew | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A mixture of the crude and the delicate in grossly unequal quantities, with the crude overwhelmingly dominant.

idiomatic, uncountable, usually

Examples

“Also, in alleging that nonmarket parameters are not measurable, in some sense, proponents of the argument from horse and rabbit stew appear to forget that ...”
“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.'”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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