| 单词 | hunger is the best sauce |
| 释义 | > as lemmashunger is the best sauce P1. In phrases suggesting that nothing sharpens the appetite or increases enjoyment of food as much as hunger; esp. in hunger is the best sauce and variants. Cf. hunger is the best kitchen, hunger is the best cook, etc. [Compare Middle French, French il n'est sauce que d'appetit (1577).] ΚΠ c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 249 Ete not, Ich hote þe, til hunger þe take, And sende þe sum of his sauce to sauer þe þe betere. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 13v Houngre & thirste is for all thynges the beste sauce in the worlde. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 12 Had they not so good a sauce as hunger. 1825 Manch. Courier 12 Nov. We fell to, neither of us wanting the best of all sauces—appetite. 1899 H. Inman Buffalo Jones' Forty Years Adventure iv. 43 What a change comes over the hungry hunter when his appetite (which is the best sauce) is appeased! 2019 Irish Times (Nexis) 4 May (Saturday Mag. section) 25 It's common knowledge that hunger is the best sauce for any meal. < as lemmas |
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