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more sauce than meat

more sauce than meat noun: a lack of real substance or weight.

Noun

more sauce than meat (uncountable)

  1. (figuratively) A lack of real substance or weight.
    • Beta without alpha provides more sauce than meat. The alpha and the beta are therefore interdependent, each in its way serving to keep instruction alive.2006, Donald Wilcox Thomas, Schoolmastery: Notes on Teaching and Learning, page 104

Questions about more sauce than meat

What does more sauce than meat mean?
More sauce than meat means a lack of real substance or weight.
What part of speech is more sauce than meat?
More sauce than meat is a noun.

Words near more sauce than meat in the dictionary

  1. more power to your arm
  2. more power to your elbow
  3. more royalist than the king
  4. more sacks on the mill
  5. more sacks to the mill
  6. more sauce than meat
  7. more so
  8. more suo
  9. more tea, vicar
  10. more than eleven
  11. more than friends

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