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Published 30 Jan, 2016 07:07am

Word of the week

Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Weak sauce’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary.

Weak sauce

Noun

Definition: Something that is of a poor or disappointing standard or quality.

Examples:

• “The rest of your argument is weak sauce.”

• “Assuming your document is true (a big assumption), it is weak sauce.”

• “For a man that knows how to craft a hooky chorus, this is some pretty weak sauce.”

• “Don’t buy this weak-sauce car even with the price cut.”

Published in Dawn, Young World, January 30th, 2015

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