A standard of unimaginable richness,
originally used to
complement a host's cooking at polite dinner parties. Latterly - and frankly much more amusingly - used to indicate extreme
hypocrisy in the actions of public figures.
"Mrs Bennet, I do declare, your devilled kidneys really are as rich as a butcher's turd" - Jane Austen, 'Pride and Prejudice'. "Straight from invading Iraq and
Afganistan, Tony Blair has laid a fresh butcher's turd by accepting the role of
Middle East Peace Envoy" - Jon Snow,
Channel 4 News.