more sauce than meat
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Noun[edit]
more sauce than meat (uncountable)
- (figurative) A lack of real substance or weight.
- 2006, Donald Wilcox Thomas, Schoolmastery: Notes on Teaching and Learning, page 104:
- 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.