weak sauce
/ˈwiːksɔːs/US informal
noun [mass noun]
Something that is of a poor or disappointing standard or quality: the rest of your argument is weak sauce...
- Assuming your document is true (a big assumption), it is weak sauce.
- His highlight vids were weak sauce, at best.
- For a man that knows how to craft a hooky chorus, this is some pretty weak sauce.
adjective
Of a poor or disappointing standard or quality: don’t buy this weak-sauce car even with the price cut...
- His weak-sauce explanation does nothing to contradict his initial claim.
- But once the Opposition's weak-sauce amendments were added to the Bill, they folded like a camping chair.
- And frankly, that's a fairly weak-sauce excuse.
Origin
1980s: humorous alteration of weak.
- to the finish
- to the fore
- to the full
- to the gills
- to the gunwales
- to the letter
- to the life
- to the marrow
- to the nearest ——
- to the nth degree
- to the point
- to the purpose
- t'other
- tother
- tothersider
- to the skies
- to the touch
- to the tune of
- to the wind(s) (or the four winds)
- to this day
- totipotency
- totipotent
- Totonac
- to top it all
- tots