Phrases & SayingsEveryday lifeRhyming slang
dead horse
Tomato sauce, in Australian rhyming slang.
In a sentence
Pass the dead horse for the chips, would you?
Where it came from
Australian rhyming-slang sources document dead horse = sauce, commonly meaning tomato sauce in Australian food contexts.
- Initial era
- 1900–1949
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established