Citations:lost in the sauce


 * (US, slang) Lost, allowed to slip through the cracks.


 * 2007, Michael T. Martin, Marilyn Yaquinto, Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies, Duke University Press (ISBN 9780822389811), page 432:
 * And because of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the nation&#39;s attention was focused elsewhere and reparations just got &#39;&#39;lost in the sauce,&#39;&#39; so to speak.
 * lost?


 * 2009, Judd Kruger Levingston, Sowing the Seeds of Character: The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools: The Moral Education of Adolescents in Public and Private Schools, Praeger (ISBN 9780313351921), page 110:
 * He concluded on this note, expressing his concern that the students who escape the attention of their teachers get “lost in the sauce.” Reflecting out loud about the student I was working with, he confided to me, “I think Jared gets ...
 * 2013, James M. Lang, Cheating Lessons, Harvard University Press (ISBN 9780674727304)
 * The propensity of students to get “lost in the sauce” is exacerbated in a course of nearly 3,000 students, since it&#39;s more difficult for Boyer and his teaching assistants to keep track of the progress of individual students.


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 * 2021, Tee, Trailblazing, Fulton Books, Inc. (ISBN 9781646543977):
 * As soon as Troy saw Jermel the next day, he went at him. “Dogg, what type of crash [is] dummy on?” “Ain&#39;t nobody crashing! You just been lost in the sauce, dogg. I handled what needed ta be handled.” “Lost in the sauce?


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 * 2008, A. Shakur Towns, Whirlwind Publishing, From the Dark Side, Lulu.com (ISBN 9780978935528)
 * The only responsibility is to self, and a teen-age junkie can really get lost in the sauce. Lost in the haze of puberty. Lost in the fog of manhood. Lost in the darkness of self-hate. Time is measured in bags and nods and scores and ...
 * 2012, Rye Barcott, It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace, A&C Black (ISBN 9781408833681), page 333:
 * I just thought you were lost in the sauce.” “Lost in the sauce.” I laughed. It was another phrase that I had adopted from the Marine Corps and brought to Kibera. “You&#39;re still lost in the sauce,” Salim teased me, pointing at my chest.


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 * 2010, Nadejda Reilly, Ukrainian Cuisine with an American Touch and Ingredients, Xlibris Corporation (ISBN 9781453511862), page 273:
 * Cooking Suggestion To prevent the cheese from getting lost in the sauce or burning, always add the sliced or shredded cheese at the end of the cooking.
 * 2012, G. Y. Dryansky, Joanne Dryansky, Coquilles, Calva, & Crème: Exploring France's Culinary Heritage: A Love Affair with French Food, Open Road Media (ISBN 9781453249260)
 * The flesh of the lamprey is fragile and can get lost in the sauce if the dish is stirred while cooking, which we&#39;d been warned against in our session. The taste is often described as also “delicate.” I took up a forkful of gray lamprey ...
 * 2018, Marie Armenia, The Audacious Molly Bruno: Amazing Stories from the Life of a Powerful Woman of Prayer, FaithWords (ISBN 9781546033196)
 * The meatball maker never intends for the meatball to give up its new and unique identity and be lost in the sauce. When God creates a new heart in us, we take on a new and eternal identity, even while we continue to live in the same ...