sauce

Universal Words noun 1 [C,U] a thick liquid that is eaten with food to add flavour to it: tomato / cranberry / chilli sauce * chicken in a white wine sauce * ice cream with a hot fudge sauce seealsoSOYSAUCE, TARTARESAUCE, WHITESAUCE 2 [U] (old-fashioned, BrE, informal) talk or behaviour that is annoying or lacking in respect SYNCHEEK 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 situation