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
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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
