The word of the day.
We never had to stand in line or bribe a bouncer to get in; we just went for drinks one night after somebody quit a job somewhere, and I had a birthday dinner there once—good enough food, good infused vodkas (I won’t back down on the whole ice-cold gin and a whisper of vermouth thing, but I will allow that cucumber-infused vodka-based martini-like drinks leave this world a better place than the one they come into), good music, great people-watching, for those into the vanity-thy-name-is-unintentional-comedy school of human nature. —And I love the logo: the melting ice cube. Genius. But I never knew that “saucebox” was a slang term meaning “one who is obnoxiously self-assertive and arrogant.”
My night is made. Early morning? Whatever.
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That is indeed nice. Here's the OED entry, for further amusement:
saucebox ('sO:sbQks). colloq. [f. sauce sb. 5 + box sb.] A person addicted to making saucy or impertinent remarks. Also attrib.
1588 Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 6 Why sawceboxes must you be pratling? 1675 Cotton Scoffer Scoft 34 For which, Sir Sawce-box, dost thou see, Since thou'lt make them, I'll unmake thee. 1741 Richardson Pamela I. 29 And so I am to be expos'd, am I, said he.., to the whole World, by such a Saucebox as you? 1820 Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. 121 She's a goosecap, you know, and a romp, and a saucebox. 1825 in C. E. Pearce Life & Times Madame Vestris (1923) 116 We thought that the stamping sort of sauce-box air with which she marched away to the tune of the 'Dashing White Sergeant' was too much in keeping with her notorious male-attire exhibitions. 1875 R. G. White in Galaxy XIX. 558 What delight it must have given this she sauce-box to make that answer to her own father.1969 V. C. Clinton-Baddeley Only a Matter of Time 89 He hadn't used 'camp' for several weeks-not since his sauce-box notice of Idomeneo.