(To). To skin an animal. In the Cookery by Mrs.
Glasse is the direction, “Take your hare when it is cased, ... and make
a pudding ...” The witticism, “First catch your hare,” may possibly
have been suggested by this direction, but it is not in the Art of
Cookery made Plain and Easy.
Impenetrable to all sense of honour or shame. The allusion is
to iron toughened by carbonising the surface in contact with charcoal
in a case or closed box. It is done by heat.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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