/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · Interlard (French)
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To put lard or fat between layers of meat. Metaphorically, to mix what is the solid part of a discourse with fulsome and irrelevant matter. Thus we say, “To interlard with oaths,” to “interlard with compliments,” etc.
“They interlard their native drinks with choice
Of strongest brandy.”
Philips: Cider. ii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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