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serve someone with the same sauce

serve someone with the same sauce is the alternative form of serve someone the same sauce.

Meaning of serve someone the same sauce

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 with the same sauce

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

Questions about serve someone with the same sauce

What is serve someone with the same sauce the alternative form of?
Serve someone with the same sauce is the alternative form of serve someone the same sauce.

Words near serve someone with the same sauce in the dictionary

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

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