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