sauce

noun

/sɔːs/

Idioms

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[countable, uncountable] a thick liquid that is eaten with food to add taste to it
- tomato/cranberry/chilli sauce
- chicken in a white sauce
- ice cream with a hot fudge sauce
- pasta sauce (= sauce that is served with pasta)
- A honey-mustard dipping sauce helped add flavour to the crab cakes.
- coconut tart served with hot chocolate sauce
see also apple sauce, barbecue sauce, Béarnaise sauce, bread sauce, brown sauce, hollandaise sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, tartare sauce, white sauce, Worcestershire sauce
Extra Examples
- Pour the sauce over the pasta.
- We had lamb with mint sauce.
Topics Fooda2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- thick
- thin
- buttery
- …
verb + sauce
- make
- prepare
- reduce
- …
sauce + noun
- boat
- bottle
preposition
- in sauce
- with sauce
See full entry
[uncountable] (British English, old-fashioned, informal) talk or behaviour that is annoying or shows no respect synonym cheek

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, based on Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’. Compare with salad.

Idioms

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

(old-fashioned, saying) what one person is allowed to do, another person must be allowed to do in a similar situationTopics Permission and obligationc2

单词	sauce
释义	sauce noun /sɔːs/ /sɔːs/ Idioms jump to other results [countable, uncountable] a thick liquid that is eaten with food to add taste to it tomato/cranberry/chilli sauce chicken in a white sauce ice cream with a hot fudge sauce pasta sauce (= sauce that is served with pasta) A honey-mustard dipping sauce helped add flavour to the crab cakes. coconut tart served with hot chocolate sauce see also apple sauce, barbecue sauce, Béarnaise sauce, bread sauce, brown sauce, hollandaise sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, tartare sauce, white sauce, Worcestershire sauce Extra Examples Pour the sauce over the pasta. We had lamb with mint sauce. Topics Fooda2 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective thick thin buttery … verb + sauce make prepare reduce … sauce + noun boat bottle preposition in sauce with sauce See full entry [uncountable] (British English, old-fashioned, informal) talk or behaviour that is annoying or shows no respect synonym cheek Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French, based on Latin salsus ‘salted’, past participle of salere ‘to salt’, from sal ‘salt’. Compare with salad. Idioms what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander (old-fashioned, saying) what one person is allowed to do, another person must be allowed to do in a similar situationTopics Permission and obligationc2
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