"special sauce" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "special sauce (usually uncountable, plural special sauces)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1975, McDonald's Corporation, Big Mac advertising jingle:",
          "text": "two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 January, Matt Groening, “Parasites Lost”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 4:",
          "text": "one day you'll be eatin' a fast-food burger.... Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special?",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A basic ingredient in McDonald's Big Mac hamburgers, a sort of Thousand Island dressing (now called Big Mac sauce by the company)."
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          "Big Mac",
          "Big Mac"
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        [
          "Thousand Island dressing",
          "Thousand Island dressing"
        ],
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          "Big Mac sauce",
          "Big Mac sauce#English"
        ]
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        "uncountable",
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        {
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          "name": "Sauces",
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      "glosses": [
        "Burger sauce."
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        "Synonym of secret sauce."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Synonym of secret sauce."
      ],
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  "word": "special sauce"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1975, McDonald's Corporation, Big Mac advertising jingle:",
          "text": "two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 January, Matt Groening, “Parasites Lost”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 4:",
          "text": "one day you'll be eatin' a fast-food burger.... Ever wonder what makes special sauce so special?",
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        }
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        "A basic ingredient in McDonald's Big Mac hamburgers, a sort of Thousand Island dressing (now called Big Mac sauce by the company)."
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          "Thousand Island dressing",
          "Thousand Island dressing"
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        "Burger sauce."
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        "Synonym of secret sauce."
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        "(figurative) Synonym of secret sauce."
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