| 单词 | more sauce than meat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmore sauce than meat P6. more sauce than meat and variants: used to imply that a work, theory, etc., is superficially pleasant or attractive, but contains little of real significance or substance. Now rare. ΚΠ 1656 W. Langley Persecuted Minister ii. ii. 129 It hath more quickness than soundness, more sauce than meat, more difficulty than doctrne [sic], more doctrine than use. 1764 R. Griffith Triumvirate I. Pref. p. xiv. He has given us, according to the vulgar phrase, rather more sauce than pig. 1911 Times 22 Mar. 10/3 Playgoers of robust appetites will say it is..more sauce than fish. 1934 Daily Tel. 19 Sept. 8/3 After the interval Stravinsky brought in a different atmosphere, with his Four Orchestral Studies... All are excessively slight—more sauce than flesh..but characteristic. < as lemmas |
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