Found 1 items, similar to To serve one the same sauce.
English → English (gcide) Definition: To serve one the same sauce Sauce \Sauce\, n. [F., fr. OF. sausse, LL. salsa, properly, salt pickle, fr. L. salsus salted, salt, p. p. of salire to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Saucer, Souse pickle, Souse to plunge.] 1. A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint sauce; sweet sauce, etc. “Poignant sauce.” --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] High sauces and rich spices fetched from the Indies. --Sir S. Baker. [1913 Webster] 2. Any garden vegetables eaten with meat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] --Forby. Bartlett. [1913 Webster] Roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers . . . they dish up various ways, and find them very delicious sauce to their meats, both roasted and boiled, fresh and salt. --Beverly. [1913 Webster] 3. Stewed or preserved fruit eaten with other food as a relish; as, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, etc. [U.S.] “Stewed apple sauce.” --Mrs. Lincoln (Cook Book). [1913 Webster] 4. Sauciness; impertinence. [Low.] --Haliwell. [1913 Webster] To serve one the same sauce, to retaliate in the same kind. [Vulgar] [1913 Webster]