horse and rabbit stews

Noun

horse and rabbit stew (usually uncountable, plural horse and rabbit stews)

1. (idiomatic, usually) A mixture of the crude and the delicate in grossly unequal quantities, with the crude overwhelmingly dominant.
   • 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 ...1985, Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette, Science policy, ethics, and economic methodology, page 172