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"2": "sauce",
"3": "box"
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],
"etymology_text": "sauce + box",
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"ref": "1628, John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, II.i",
"text": "Grilla: You are too perstreperous, sauce-box.",
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"A saucy, impudent or impertinent person."
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"(colloquial) A saucy, impudent or impertinent person."
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{
"ref": "2015, Bec McMaster, Of Silk and Steam",
"text": "“Shut your saucebox and get out of my sight,” Blade said.",
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"The mouth."
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"(colloquial) The mouth."
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