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 SauceSauce to the Goose is Sauce to the Gander. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Sauce (To).
 
To intermix.   1
        “Then she fell to sauce her desires with threatenings.”—Sidney.
        “Folly sauced with discretion.”—Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, i. 2.
 


 SauceSauce to the Goose is Sauce to the Gander. 

 
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