mince

2. VERB

If you mince food such as meat, you put it into a machine which cuts it into very small pieces. [mainly BRIT]

• Perhaps I'll buy lean meat and mince it myself.
• minced beef.

4. PHRASE : V inflects, with brd-neg

If you say that someone does not mince their words, you mean that they speak in a forceful and direct way, especially when saying something unpleasant to someone.

• The doctors didn't mince their words, and predicted the worst.

.... Cobuild