sauce

Hunger is the best sauce.

Prov. Everything tastes especially good when you are hungry, because you are so eager to eat it. After our twenty-mile hike, we stopped at a little roadside restaurant. It may have been that they made the most delicious food in the world there, or it may have been that hunger was the best sauce.

See also: best, hunger

on the sauce

drinking regularly; intoxicated. Poor old Ron is on the sauce again. He is on the sauce most of the time.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Prov. What is good for one person is good for another.; What is good for the man in a couple is good for the woman. Jane: You're overweight; you should get more exercise. Alan: But I don't really have time to exercise. Jane: When I was overweight, you told me to exercise; what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

See also: gander, goose

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What's sauce for the goose (is sauce for the gander).  (British, American & Australian old-fashioned) also What's good for the goose (is good for the gander). (American & Australian old-fashioned)

something that you say to suggest that if a particular type of behaviour is acceptable for one person, it should also be acceptable for another person If your husband can go out with his friends, then surely you can go out with yours. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

See cook goose, kill the goose that lays the golden egg

See also: goose