sauce

S0101700 (sôs)n.1. A flavorful liquid or semisolid condiment or mixture of ingredients served as a topping or other accompaniment to food.2. Stewed fruit, usually served with other foods.3. Something that adds zest, flavor, or piquancy.4. Informal Impudent speech or behavior; impertinence or sauciness.5. Slang Alcoholic liquor.tr.v. sauced, sauc·ing, sauc·es 1. To season or flavor with sauce.2. To add piquancy or zest to.3. Informal To be impertinent or impudent to.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *salsa, from Latin, feminine of salsus, past participle of sallere, to salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.]

sauce

(sɔːs) n1. (Cookery) any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour2. (Cookery) anything that adds piquancy3. (Cookery) US and Canadian stewed fruit4. (Cookery) dialect US vegetables eaten with meat5. informal impudent language or behaviourvb (tr) 6. (Cookery) to prepare (food) with sauce7. to add zest to8. to make agreeable or less severe9. informal to be saucy to[C14: via Old French from Latin salsus salted, from salīre to sprinkle with salt, from sal salt] ˈsauceless adj

sauce

(sɔs)

n., v. sauced, sauc•ing. n. 1. any liquid or semiliquid preparation, as gravy or a condiment, eaten as an accompaniment to food. 2. stewed fruit, usu. puréed: cranberry sauce. 3. something that adds piquance or zest. 4. Informal. impertinence; sauciness. 5. Slang. hard liquor (usu. prec. by the). v.t. 6. to dress with a sauce. [1300–50; < Middle French < Late Latin salsa, derivative of Latin salsus salted, past participle of sallere to salt]

sauce

Past participle: sauced
Gerund: saucing

Imperative
sauce
sauce

Present
I sauce
you sauce
he/she/it sauces
we sauce
you sauce
they sauce

Preterite
I sauced
you sauced
he/she/it sauced
we sauced
you sauced
they sauced

Present Continuous
I am saucing
you are saucing
he/she/it is saucing
we are saucing
you are saucing
they are saucing

Present Perfect
I have sauced
you have sauced
he/she/it has sauced
we have sauced
you have sauced
they have sauced

Past Continuous
I was saucing
you were saucing
he/she/it was saucing
we were saucing
you were saucing
they were saucing

Past Perfect
I had sauced
you had sauced
he/she/it had sauced
we had sauced
you had sauced
they had sauced

Future
I will sauce
you will sauce
he/she/it will sauce
we will sauce
you will sauce
they will sauce

Future Perfect
I will have sauced
you will have sauced
he/she/it will have sauced
we will have sauced
you will have sauced
they will have sauced

Future Continuous
I will be saucing
you will be saucing
he/she/it will be saucing
we will be saucing
you will be saucing
they will be saucing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been saucing
you have been saucing
he/she/it has been saucing
we have been saucing
you have been saucing
they have been saucing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been saucing
you will have been saucing
he/she/it will have been saucing
we will have been saucing
you will have been saucing
they will have been saucing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been saucing
you had been saucing
he/she/it had been saucing
we had been saucing
you had been saucing
they had been saucing

Conditional
I would sauce
you would sauce
he/she/it would sauce
we would sauce
you would sauce
they would sauce

Past Conditional
I would have sauced
you would have sauced
he/she/it would have sauced
we would have sauced
you would have sauced
they would have sauced

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sauce - flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to fooddish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner"condiment - a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment; "mustard and ketchup are condiments"anchovy sauce - made of white sauce and mashed anchovieshot sauce - a pungent peppery saucehard sauce - butter and sugar creamed together with brandy or other flavoring and served with rich puddingshorseradish sauce, sauce Albert - creamy white sauce with horseradish and mustardtartar sauce, tartare sauce - mayonnaise with chopped pickles and sometimes capers and shallots and parsley and hard-cooked egg; sauce for seafood especially fried fishwine sauce - white or veloute sauce with wine and stock variously seasoned with onions and herbs; for fish or meatmarchand de vin, mushroom wine sauce - brown sauce with mushrooms and red wine or Madeirabread sauce - creamy white sauce made with bread instead of flour and seasoned with cloves and onionplum sauce - for Chinese dishes: plum preserves and chutneypeach sauce - for Chinese dishes: peach preserves and chutneyapricot sauce - for Chinese dishes: apricot preserves and chutneypesto - a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oilravigote, ravigotte - veloute sauce seasoned with chopped chervil, chives, tarragon, shallots and capersremoulade sauce - a mayonnaise sauce flavored with herbs and mustard and capers; served with e.g. salad and cold meatdressing, salad dressing - savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise typeaioli, aioli sauce, garlic sauce - garlic mayonnaisebarbecue sauce - spicy sweet and sour sauce usually based on catsup or chili saucehollandaise - eggs and butter with lemon juicebearnaise - a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juiceBercy, Bercy butter - butter creamed with white wine and shallots and parsleybordelaise - brown sauce with beef marrow and red winebourguignon, bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce - reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butterbrown sauce, sauce Espagnole - bouillon or beef stock thickened with butter and flour roux and variously seasoned with herbs or Worcestershire etc.Espagnole, sauce Espagnole - brown sauce with tomatoes and a caramelized mixture of minced carrots and onions and celery seasoned with Madeirabrown sauce, Chinese brown sauce - a sauce based on soy saucechocolate sauce, chocolate syrup - sauce made with unsweetened chocolate or cocoa and sugar and watercocktail sauce, seafood sauce - usually catsup with horseradish and lemon juiceColbert, Colbert butter - butter creamed with parsley and tarragon and beef extractbechamel, bechamel sauce, white sauce - milk thickened with a butter and flour rouxdemiglace, demi-glaze - sauce Espagnole with extra beef stock simmered down and seasoned with dry wine or sherrygravy - a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meatspasta sauce, spaghetti sauce - any of numerous sauces for spaghetti or other kinds of pastamole - spicy sauce often containing chocolatehunter's sauce, sauce chausseur - brown sauce and tomato puree with onions and mushrooms and dry white winemushroom sauce - brown sauce and sauteed mushroomsmustard sauce - sauce of prepared mustard thinned with vinegar and vegetable oil with sugar and seasoningsNantua, shrimp sauce - white sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butterHungarian sauce, paprika sauce - veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onion and paprika and creampepper sauce, Poivrade - for venison: brown sauce with sauteed vegetables and trimmings and marinade and plenty of pepperSmitane - veloute or brown sauce with sauteed chopped onion and dry white wine and sour creamSoubise, white onion sauce - veloute sauce with sauteed chopped onions and whipping creambrown onion sauce, Lyonnaise sauce - brown sauce with sauteed chopped onions and parsley and dry white wine or vinegarveloute - white sauce made with stock instead of milkallemande, allemande sauce - egg-thickened veloute
Verb	1.	sauce - behave saucily or impudently towardsbehave, act, do - behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people"
	2.	sauce - dress (food) with a relishcookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"flavor, flavour, season - lend flavor to; "Season the chicken breast after roasting it"
	3.	sauce - add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

sauce

noun dressing, dip, relish, condiment, jus (French) pasta cooked in a sauce of garlic

Sauces

apple, à la king, barbecue, Béarnaise, béchamel, black bean, bolognese or bolognaise, Bordelaise, brandy butter or hard sauce, bread, brown, chasseur, chaudfroid, cheese, chilli, chocolate, chow-chow, coulis, cranberry, cream, creole, cumberland, curry, custard, French dressing, fudge, gravy, hoisin, hollandaise, horseradish, ketchup, mayonnaise, Melba sauce, mint, mornay, mousseline, nam pla or fish sauce, orange, oyster, pesto, piccalilli, red pesto, rémoulade, Russian dressing, sabayon, salad cream, salad dressing, salsa, salsa verde, soubise, soy sauce, shoyu, or tamari, suprême, sweet-and-sour, Tabasco (trademark), tartare, tomato, velouté, verjuice sauce, vinaigrette, white, wine, Worcester or Worcestershire

sauce

nounInformal. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident:assumption, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness.Informal: brass, crust, uppishness, uppityness.verbInformal. To utter an impertinent rejoinder:talk back, talk up.Informal: sass.Idiom: give someone lip.

Translations

调味汁酱汁酱油

sauce

(soːs) noun a usually thick liquid that is poured over other food in order to add moisture and flavour. tomato sauce; an expert at making sauces. 调味汁，酱油 ˈsaucy adjective slightly rude. a saucy remark.无礼的ˈsaucily adverb无礼地ˈsauciness noun无礼ˈsaucepan (-pən) , ((American) -pan) noun a deep pan usually with a long handle for boiling or stewing food. （长柄而有盖子的）深平底锅，炖锅

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awesome sauce

slang Excellent, great, or exceptionally interesting. I couldn't take him seriously when he described the movie as being awesome sauce. Awesome sauce! I got an A on my midterm!See also: awesome, sauce

hit the sauce

To drink alcohol, especially heavily and frequently. You need to stop hitting the sauce and start taking care of your kids!See also: hit, sauce

die for want of lobster sauce

To literally die or to be devastated due to a minor inconvenience or mishap. The phrase is thought to refer to a chef who committed suicide after discovering that he didn't have the ingredients to make lobster sauce for a banquet for King Louis XIV. I know you're really upset about not getting the lead in the school play, but I think you dying for want of lobster sauce—I mean, you still got a great role!See also: die, of, sauce, want

hunger is a good sauce

Food tastes better when one is hungry. Don't worry too much about what to feed the hikers. Hunger is a good sauce, and they're going to love whatever you serve them.See also: good, hunger, sauce

serve (one) the same sauce

To treat one the same way that one has treated you—usually poorly. Of course she's not invited to the dinner party! She didn't invite me to her last soiree, so I'm serving her the same sauce.See also: same, sauce, serve

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

If something is good, acceptable, or beneficial for one person, it is or should be equally so for another person or persons as well. Well I guess if you are entitled to stay out until all hours, then I'll do the same. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, right?See also: gander, goose, sauce

hit the bottle

To drink alcohol, especially to excess. All this stress at work right now is enough to make me hit the bottle.See also: bottle, hit

(as) happy as a clam in butter sauce

Very joyful and content. Look at your sister out there! She's happy as a clam in butter sauce now that she's back in the starting lineup again. I know I'll be happy as a clam in butter sauce once I get this stupid cast off my leg.See also: butter, clam, happy, sauce

hit the booze

To drink alcohol, especially to excess. All this stress at work right now is enough to make me hit the booze.See also: booze, hit

fry sauce

A condiment made by combining ketchup and mayonnaise. As the name suggests, it is typically served with French fries. Hey, can you get me some fry sauce, please? I don't like to eat my fries with just ketchup.See also: fry, sauce

lost in the sauce

1. Thoroughly inebriated, especially to the point of being stupefied. ("Sauce" is a common slang term for alcohol.) Everyone kept buying me drinks for my birthday, so I was fairly lost in the sauce by the end of the night. Don't worry about it, everyone was lost to the sauce last night.2. Consumed by alcoholism, especially to the point of being rendered unable to function properly. I think poor Tom is lost in the sauce these days. Every time I see him he's either drinking at home or heading to a bar. I divorced my husband after it became clear that he was lost in the sauce for good.3. Ignored, forgotten, or neglected amid a larger group of people or things. The boy's got a lot of potential out on the football field, but I think he gets kind of lost in the sauce playing alongside the older players. There was a lot going on last month, so I'm afraid some of our usual obligations got lost in the sauce. The real political issues are getting lost in the sauce with all the petty name-calling and scandal mongering going on between both political parties.4. Consumed by some wild, chaotic, or confusing situation. She was only 16 when she skyrocketed to pop-music fame, and she later lamented that she had gotten lost in the sauce of that world. A true artist can separate themselves from the trappings of their successes or failures and continue to focus on the vision in their heart and soul—a hack will just get lost in the sauce.See also: lost, sauce

on the sauce

1. slang Currently one who consumes alcohol, especially heavily and frequently. Said especially of alcoholics. My dad was a real mean son of a gun when he was on the sauce. You can tell Tara's been on the sauce again—she's been reeking of booze lately.2. slang Using performance-enhancing drugs, especially anabolic steroids. The football star has repeatedly denied being on the sauce, though he still refuses to take an official drug test. I knew a guy who went on the sauce in high school trying to get super jacked. I think that junk really messed up his body.See also: on, sauce

red-sauce parlor

An Italian-American restaurant known for serving traditional pasta dishes with tomato-based sauce. They new Italian restaurant that opened up downtown is a throwback to those authentic red-sauce parlors that my parents used to take me to as a kid. I grew up working in my grandfather's red-sauce parlor, so I know just about everything there is to know about pasta.See also: parlor

sauce parlor

dated slang A bar or tavern. "Sauce" is a slang term for alcohol. I heard Tommy's dad spends more time at the sauce parlor than he does at home. The cops spotted the two criminals coming out of the sauce parlor and took them in for questioning.See also: parlor, sauce

sauce

slang Alcohol, especially liquor. Used especially in the phrases "hit the sauce" and "on the sauce." You need to stop hitting the sauce so hard every weekend. I think Tom might be back on the sauce again.

sauced

slang Drunk. You might get more accomplished with your life if you didn't spend every evening getting sauced. I was way too sauced to drive home, so I just left my car in the parking lot.See also: sauce

hunger is the best sauce

Food tastes better when one is hungry. Don't worry too much about what to feed the hikers. Hunger is the best sauce, and they're going to love whatever you serve them.See also: hunger, sauce

hit the bottle

and hit the boozeFig. Inf. to go on a drinking bout; to get drunk. Jed's hitting the bottle again. He's been hitting the booze for a week now.See also: bottle, hit

Hunger is the best sauce.

Prov. Everything tastes especially good when you are hungry, because you are so eager to eat it. After our twenty-mile hike, we stopped at a little roadside restaurant. It may have been that they made the most delicious food in the world there, or it may have been that hunger was the best sauce.See also: hunger, sauce

on the sauce

drinking regularly; intoxicated. Poor old Ron is on the sauce again. He is on the sauce most of the time.See also: on, sauce

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Prov. What is good for one person is good for another.; What is good for the man in a couple is good for the woman. Jane: You're overweight; you should get more exercise. Alan: But I don't really have time to exercise. Jane: When I was overweight, you told me to exercise; what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.See also: gander, goose, sauce

hit the bottle

Also, hit the booze or sauce . Drink alcoholic beverages, especially a great deal, as in I don't know if it will be a problem, but he hits the bottle every weekend, or She hardly ever hits the booze, but when she does, watch out, or It doesn't show in her work, but she hits the sauce every night. These slangy expressions date from the late 1800s and early 1900s. See also: bottle, hit

sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, what's

What applies to one applies to both, especially to both male and female. For example, After her husband went off with his fishing buddies for a week, she decided to take a vacation without him-what's sauce for the goose, you know . This proverbial expression, often shortened as in the example, was cited and described as "a woman's proverb" in John Ray's English Proverbs (1678). See also: goose, sauce

hit the bottle

INFORMALIf someone hits the bottle, they drink too much alcohol. One newspaper even said I'd started hitting the bottle. Complete rubbish. These teenagers hit the bottle to rebel.See also: bottle, hit

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

OLD-FASHIONEDPeople say what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander when they are arguing that a rule that applies to one person should apply to others, because people should be treated equally. If a man can marry someone twenty years younger than him, why can't a woman? What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.See also: gander, goose, sauce

hit (or be on) the bottle

start to drink alcohol heavily, especially in an attempt to escape from one's problems. informalSee also: bottle, hit

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

what is appropriate in one case is also appropriate in the other case in question. proverb This expression is often used as a statement that what is right or wrong for one sex is right or wrong for the other as well. John Ray , who was the first to record this saying (in his English Proverbs of 1670 ), remarked ‘This is a woman's Proverb’. 1998 New Scientist What is sauce for the US goose is sauce for the Iraqi gander! See also: gander, goose, sauce

hit the ˈbottle

(informal) regularly drink too much: She managed to resist alcohol for a year, then hit the bottle again when her husband died. ♢ He’s really hitting the bottle at the moment.See also: bottle, hit

what’s ˌsauce for the ˌgoose is ˌsauce for the ˈgander

(old-fashioned, saying) if one partner in a marriage or relationship can behave in a particular way, then the other partner should also be allowed to behave in this way: If she can go out with her friends, why can’t I? What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.A gander is a male goose.See also: gander, goose, sauce

hit the bottle

and hit the booze tv. to go on a drinking bout; to get drunk. She got caught hitting the bottle in the office. He’s been hitting the booze for a week now. See also: bottle, hit

hit the booze

verbSee hit the bottleSee also: booze, hit

lost in the sauce

mod. alcohol intoxicated and bewildered. Sally got lost in the sauce at the party and made quite a spectacle of herself. See also: lost, sauce

on the sauce

mod. drinking regularly; alcohol intoxicated. Poor old Ron is on the sauce again. See also: on, sauce

sauce

n. liquor; any alcoholic beverage. (see also on the sauce.) Did you bring the sauce? Can’t have a good party without lots of sauce.

sauce parlor

n. a tavern. I wouldn’t be caught dead in that sauce parlor. See also: parlor, sauce

sauced

mod. alcohol intoxicated. She went out and got herself sauced. See also: sauce

sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, what's

What’s good for one is good for the other; it applies to both (especially, male and female, or husband and wife). John Ray included this expression in his 1678 proverb collection and termed it “a woman’s Proverb.” An early assertion of sexual equity, it has since been applied both in instances of male and female and in more general terms. The former is meant in Lawrence Block’s novel A Stab in the Dark (1981): “I knew she had accused her husband of infidelity, so I thought she might be getting a bit of sauce for the goose.”See also: goose, sauce

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awesome sauce

hit the sauce

die for want of lobster sauce

hunger is a good sauce

serve (one) the same sauce

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

hit the bottle

(as) happy as a clam in butter sauce

hit the booze

fry sauce

lost in the sauce

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red-sauce parlor

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hunger is the best sauce

hit the bottle

Hunger is the best sauce.

on the sauce

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

hit the bottle

sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, what's

hit the bottle

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

hit (or be on) the bottle

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

hit the ˈbottle

what’s ˌsauce for the ˌgoose is ˌsauce for the ˈgander

hit the bottle

hit the booze

lost in the sauce

on the sauce

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sauce parlor

sauced

sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, what's

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Synonyms for sauce

noun dressing

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Synonyms for sauce

noun the state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident

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verb to utter an impertinent rejoinder

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Words related to sauce

noun flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food

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verb behave saucily or impudently towards

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verb dress (food) with a relish

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verb add zest or flavor to, make more interesting

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