more sauce than meat

English

Noun

more sauce than meat (uncountable)

  1. (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.
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