sauce

la salsa

sauce(sas)

noun

1. (culinary)

a. la salsa

(F)

Could you pass the tomato sauce, please?

¿Podrías pasar la salsa de tomate, por favor?

transitive verb

2. (culinary)

a. ponerle una salsa de

Rather than cream, I felt the veal would have been better sauced with a rich tomato sauce.

Me parece que hubiera sido mejor ponerle una salsa de tomate intensa a la ternera que la de nata.

sauce

Noun

1. (for food)

a. la salsa

(F)

tomato/cheese saucesalsa de tomate or

sauce boatsalsera f

2. (colloquial) (United Kingdom)

a. el descaro

(M)

(impudence)

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sauce [sɔːs]

noun

1 (savoury) salsa (f); (sweet) crema (f)

tomato sauce salsa (f) de tomate; (ketchup) salsa (f) de tomate; ketchup (m); chocolate sauce crema (f) de chocolate

bring the sauce to the boil and then pour it over the chicken duck is traditionally served with an orange sauce vanilla ice cream with \chocolate sauce\

what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander lo que es bueno para uno es bueno para el otro

apple cheese cranberry mint orange soya white

2 (impudence) frescura (f); descaro (m)

that's enough of your sauce Now she's left him for her assertiveness training counsellor. He'll give her assertiveness! Damn sauce!

what sauce! ¡qué frescura!; none of your sauce! ¡eres un fresco! (informal)

3 (US) (drink)

the sauce la bebida; la priva (very_informal); (Esp)

to hit the sauce to be on the sauce empinar el codo (informal); darle a la bebida; darle a la priva (very_informal); (Esp)

modifier

sauce boat (n) salsera (f)