weak saucenoun [ U ]
/ˌwiːk ˈsɔːs//ˌwiːk ˈsɑːs/US informalsomething that is of poor quality and not as good as expected:
Often you see some pretty weak sauce passing for a debate.
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- The movie suffers from the faults that make so many low-budget films into weak sauce.
- Put up against his other work, this is definitely the weak sauce in the Mitchell oeuvre.
- She was well known for letting the public know who was weak sauce and who wasn't.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not of good quality
- a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
- apology
- atrocious
- awful
- badly
- be an apology for sth idiom
- clunky
- come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
- downmarket
- downscale
- inadequacy
- inadequate
- motley
- mouldy
- not set the world on fire idiom
- tacky
- unappetizing
- unattractive
- unimpressed
- worst
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