serve someone the same sauce

verb

To treat in the same way, especially as retaliation.

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Meanings

verbserve 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)

present singular third person serves someone the same sauce · participle present serving someone the same sauce · participle past served someone the same sauce · past 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
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MLA

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Chicago

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