throw red meat
v.— «Will it finally penetrate even the thick heads of rabble-rousers who have been throwing red meat to lions and hyenas that rabble-rousers, themselves, can be turned into red meat?» —“All They Need is Red Meat” Salisbury Times (Maryland) Oct. 17, 1958. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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