Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.
Sauce
More sauce than meat.
Though the sauce be good yet you need not forsake the meat for it.
We don’t care for the sauce so long as there is fish in the kettle.Italian.
What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.English woman’s proverb.
You spoil a good dish with ill sauce.