in the sauce 饮酒过多的,醉的having had a lot of alcohol; drunk They've put vodka in her fruit juice to get her in the sauce.他们把伏特加酒倒进她的果汁以把她灌醉。
The sauce tastes too sweet.这果酱味道太甜。 He told me I was old enough to be his mother.What a sauce!他跟我说我都老得可以当他母亲了,真是无礼!
［词源］＜古法语sause, saulse(盐腌食物)
