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serve someone the same sauce

serve someone the same sauce verb: to treat in the same way, especially as retaliation.

Verb

serve someone the same sauce (third-person singular simple present serves someone the same sauce, present participle serving someone the same sauce, simple past and past participle served someone the same sauce)

  1. To treat in the same way, especially as retaliation.
    • Zeus wants to serve you all with the same sauce and hurl the lot of you into the Barathrum.1912, London Athenian Society, Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies, Plutus

Forms of serve someone the same sauce

third-person singular presentserves someone the same sauce
present participleserving someone the same sauce
past participleserved someone the same sauce
pastserved someone the same sauce

Questions about serve someone the same sauce

What does serve someone the same sauce mean?
Serve someone the same sauce means to treat in the same way, especially as retaliation.
What part of speech is serve someone the same sauce?
Serve someone the same sauce is a verb.
What is the past tense of serve someone the same sauce?
The past tense of serve someone the same sauce is served someone the same sauce.

Words near serve someone the same sauce in the dictionary

  1. serve notice
  2. serve one's time
  3. serve out
  4. serve someone a trick
  5. serve someone right
  6. serve someone the same sauce
  7. serve someone with the same sauce
  8. serve the time
  9. serve the turn
  10. serve time
  11. serve two masters

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