lost in the sauce
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
1
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Out of it, lost, e.g. due to intoxication, aimlessness, or being bewildered or distracted.
American usage; Slang
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lost, sauce.
Example Sentences
- "Our talks over shots of Patrón is what I will miss most. You can't sit and have intellectual, intelligent conversations with some woman in our generation. They are still lost in the sauce and looking for purpose."
- "As soon as Troy saw Jermel the next day, he went at him. “Dogg, what type of crash [is] dummy on?” “Ain't nobody crashing! You just been lost in the sauce, dogg. I handled what needed ta be handled.”"
- "Yet still lost in the sauce. I had no clue who I was and how I wanted to be loved. That was the triggering moment when I felt that something had to change. I still did not know who I was and what I wanted."
- "And because of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the nation's attention was focused elsewhere and reparations just got lost in the sauce, so to speak."
- "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 ..."
- "The propensity of students to get “lost in the sauce” is exacerbated in a course of nearly 3,000 students, since it's more difficult for Boyer and his teaching assistants to keep track of the progress of individual students."