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on the sauce

on the sauce prepositional phrase: drinking alcoholic beverages to excess.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (slang) Drinking alcoholic beverages to excess.

Synonyms of on the sauce

Origin of on the sauce

From on (“regularly taking”) + the + slang sauce (“any alcoholic drink”).

Questions about on the sauce

What does on the sauce mean?
On the sauce means drinking alcoholic beverages to excess.
What part of speech is on the sauce?
On the sauce is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on the sauce in the dictionary

  1. on the ropes
  2. on the run
  3. on the safe side
  4. on the same page
  5. on the same wavelength
  6. on the sauce
  7. on the scene
  8. on the scoot
  9. on the scrounge
  10. on the shady side of
  11. on the shelf

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