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awesome sauce
Internet slang Either used as an adjective to describe something as being excellent, great, or exceptionally interesting, or used as an exclamation in affirmation of the same. I couldn't take him seriously when he described the movie as being awesome sauce. Awesome sauce! I got an A on my midterm!
hit the sauce
To drink alcohol, especially heavily and frequently. You need to stop hitting the sauce and start taking care of your kids!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
on the sauce
drinking regularly; intoxicated. Poor old Ron is on the sauce again. He is on the sauce most of the time.
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.
hit the bottle
to drink too much alcohol I was disgusted with myself for having hit the bottle again.
What's sauce for the goose (is sauce for the gander).
(British, American & Australian old-fashioned) also What's good for the goose (is good for the gander). (American & Australian old-fashioned) something that you say to suggest that if a particular type of behaviour is acceptable for one person, it should also be acceptable for another person If your husband can go out with his friends, then surely you can go out with yours. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
See cook goose, kill the goose that lays the golden egghit the bottle
to start drinking too much alcohol regularly, usually in order to forget your problems He lost his job and hit the bottle.
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.
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).
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.
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.
on the sauce
mod. drinking regularly; alcohol intoxicated. Poor old Ron is on the sauce again.
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.
sauced
mod. alcohol intoxicated. She went out and got herself sauced.