mutton dressed as lamb

mutton | American Dictionary

mutton
noun[ U ]
us/ˈmʌt·ən/
the meat from an adult sheep

Examples of mutton

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Raising his eyes from his mutton, the owner may see inscribed upon his own horizon the acceptable difference between the rich and the poor.
A few sheep of the criollo variety were kept, but only for mutton.
The price series for flour, mutton, olive oil, cooking oil, onions, chickpeas, pepper, sugar, and wood were used in these calculations.
Similarly, the weight of meat (mutton) varies between 5 and 8 percent of the overall budget.
The system also produced 156 kg of wool and 411 kg of mutton.
They had the same conversation; the same silver dishes; the same saddles of mutton, boiled turkeys, and entrees.
The development of the mutton market is an indication of how marketing has developed.
None of these artists enjoy a hearth, or leg of mutton, of one's own.
The mutton market is a newly created market.
The marketing strategies used by the farm are an important tool in aiding the sale of otherwise unusual meat, such as the mutton and young ram meat.
Further away, where land values are lower, they have larger farms producing cash crops, such as wheat, barley and sugarbeet, and livestock products, such as milk, beef, mutton and wool.
Among these, flour, rice, cooking oil, mutton, olive oil, and honey provided the most reliable long-term series and carried the highest weights in our food budget.
The main reason behind this ability to sell sheep meat year round, is due to the different systems of production on the farm, and the revival of mutton.
The causes are many, including a reduction in demand for mutton, lamb and goatmeat, partly due to the large-scale import of meat from third countries.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
However, to return to my muttons, we have vast chunks of a megalithic government department looking at anti-competitive practices in the private sector.
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