| 单词 | to put on the sauce |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put on the sauce 5. Originally and chiefly U.S. Air Force slang. Fuel. Chiefly in to put on the sauce: to increase the flow of fuel to an engine in order to accelerate; (hence) to speed up. Cf. juice n. 1e. Now rare (chiefly historical). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > chemical fuel > [noun] > liquid naphthec1384 naphtha1543 paraffin1851 kerosene1854 octylene1857 shale-oil1857 coal oil1859 gasoline1863 octane1867 octene1868 octyne1877 gas1878 liquid fuel1889 petrol1895 mazut1897 white fuel1901 diesel oil1905 autogas1908 juice1909 sauce1918 power kerosene1919 petroil1921 ethyl1923 lox1923 kero1930 isooctane1932 high-octane1933 hi-octane1933 Calor1936 pool petrol1939 super1939 pool1940 derv1948 platformate1949 mixture1952 diesel1953 Mapp gas1962 gasohol1971 super unleaded1975 synoil1976 synjet1979 biodiesel1986 Orimulsion1987 1918 L. La Tourette Driggs Adventures of Arnold Adair Amer. Ace xii. 160 Dipping my wings as a signal to start, I put on the sauce, and we forged ahead. 1933 Pop. Aviation May 331/1 Stenseth put everything he had on stick and rudder and gave the Hisso the sauce. 1948 G. Millar Isabel & Sea (1983) vii. 74 You had better put on the sauce if you want to get much further. 1983 ‘S. Wahl’ Birth Rights xxx. 293 Suddenly he spotted a formation of American bombers..putting on the sauce towards the Allied lines. < as lemmas |
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