mint sauce

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Noun

mint sauce (usually uncountable, plural mint sauces)

1. A sauce, made with mint and vinegar, that is a popular accompaniment to roast lamb.
2. (UK, slang, dated) Money.
   • 1974, H. R. F. Keating, The Underside:

     'Sure, I do. Joey comes here with me whenever I'm not busy with a flat and he's got the mint-sauce for the entrance fee.'

Translations

sauce made with mint and vinegar

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薄荷醬 / 薄荷酱 (báohejiàng)

• Esperanto: mentosaŭco
• Finnish: minttukastike
• French: sauce à la menthe f
• Irish: anlann miontais m
• Japanese: ミントソース (minto sōsu)
• Korean: 민트 소스 (minteu soseu)
• Manx: soolagh mynthey m
• Spanish: salsa de menta f

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