more sauce than meat

noun

A lack of real substance or weight.

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Meanings

nounmore sauce than meat (uncountable)
  1. figurativelyuncountableA 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
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