serve someone the same sauce

English

Verb

serve someone the same sauce (third-person singular simple present serves someone the same sauce, present participle serving someone the same sauce, simple past and past participle served someone the same sauce)

1. To treat in the same way, especially as retaliation.
   • 1912, London Athenian Society, Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies, Plutus:

     Zeus wants to serve you all with the same sauce and hurl the lot of you into the Barathrum.

References

• “sauce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.