apple sauce n.1
1. (US) nonsense, balderdash; anything banal or out of date.
![]() | TAD Lex. (1993) 15: Miss Applesauce, I want you to meet my friends. | in Zwilling|
![]() | Coll. Short Stories (1941) 71: I wasn’t born yesterday and I know apple sauce when I hear it and I bet you’ve told that to fifty girls. | ‘Zone of Quiet’ in|
![]() | Right Ho, Jeeves 106: I had given [...] little credence, considering it the unbalanced apple sauce of a bereaved man. | |
![]() | Harper’s Mag. n.d.: Karl Marx [...] called these loose floating ideas ideologies [...] which freely translated into American means ‘applesauce’ [W&F]. | |
![]() | One Touch of Venus 100: Thanks for saying it, Mr. Savory — but — but — that’s a lot of applesauce. | |
![]() | Jeeves in the Offing 48: Apple sauce, in my opinion. | |
![]() | Dict. of Invective (1991) 14: Foods also serve as metaphors for nonsense, e.g., applesauce, baloney, banana oil, beans, mush, pap, and tripe. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s–60s) Straight from the Fridge Dad 4: Applesauce Flattery, insincere praise, a load of old flannel eg: ‘Don’t hand me that applesauce, Pops’. | |
![]() | I, Fatty 178: Maude was a bad bag of applesauce. |
2. (US) anything easy.
![]() | in DARE. |