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salt Theme: SAILOR n. a sailor. (Especially with old.)A couple of salts came ashore and asked if they could buy some beer.I've sailed a little, but you could hardly call me an old salt.
salt 1. noun 1 a sailor, especially an experienced sailor. Often in the phrase 'old salt' UK, 1840. 2 an experienced veteran in any calling UK, 1970. 3 a woman. Possibly by extension from obsolete (mid-C17 to mid-C18) 'salt' (the sex act); possibly by abbreviation from obsolete (C19) 'salt-cellar' (the vagina); most likely of unknown etymology UK, 1969. 4 a drunkard BARBADOS, 1965. 5 heroin. From the appearance of the powdered drug US, 1971. 6 plain tobacco mixed with marijuana SOUTH AFRICA, 1946 2. verb 1 to make something appear to be worth more than it is. Originally mining slang US, 1852. 2 to swindle someone by baiting them US, 1950. 3 to plant or place something to be found US, 1981
idiomsaltno ___ worth his/her salt would do sth(also any ___ worth his/her salt would do sth)used in order to say that someone who is good at their job would do a particular thing:No government organisation worth its salt would negotiate with terrorists.Any guitarist worth his salt would surely appreciate the high quality of this instrument.A hairdresser's not worth her salt if she doesn't give a consultation before giving a hair cut.Note In ancient Rome, soldiers were paid in salt instead of money. rub salt in/into sb's wounds(also rub salt in/into the wound)to do something that makes someone feel even more embarrassed or upset about their situation than they already do:Not only has he treated her like dirt, now he's rubbing salt in her wounds by bringing Joanne to her party.The Museum of Western Art was officially shut down and, to rub salt into the wound, the building was turned into a meat storage facility.Note Sailors (=men who work on ships) were punished in the past by being beaten with a rope. Salt was put on their wounds, because people thought it would help them get better but, of course, it just made them hurt more. the salt of the earthused about a person or group of people you admire, because they are good, honest, ordinary people:They're decent people, trying to earn a living, and this play shows they're the salt of the earth.People keep saying, you own all that land out there, why don't you go live there? Well, I used to think the people out there were the salt of the earth, but now I can't stand them.salt-of-the-earth: We like our politicians to be salt-of-the-earth types. phrasesalt[salted, salted, salting]
salt away
salt away sth • salt sth away to save money for the future by hiding it, especially money that you have got dishonestly: Drug traffickers are salting away their funds, serving their prison sentences, and then coming out to a life of luxury.■ SIMILAR TO: stash away informal
salt-and-pepperA mottled mixture of black, grey, and white. Usually used in reference to hair. Her salt-and-pepper hair gave our teacher a look of distinction and authority. salt n. a sailor. (Especially with old.) I’ve sailed a little, but you could hardly call me an old salt. - above the salt
- any (one) worth (one's) salt
- Attic salt
- back to the salt mines
- below the salt
- beneath the salt
- common salt
- covenant of salt
- earn one's keep
- eat (one's) salt
- eat salt
- eat salt with
- eat salt with (someone)
- go (right) through (one) like a dose of salts
- go back to the salt mines
- go pound salt
- go through
- go through one
- go through someone like a dose of salts
- go through someone like a dose of the salts
- have enough sense to pound salt
- have hung up and salted
- like a dose of salts
- no (person) worth their salt would (do something)
- no teacher/actor, etc. worth their salt
- old salt
- pound salt
- pour salt in(to) the/(someone's) wound(s)
- put salt on the tail of
- put salt on the tail of (someone or something)
- rub in
- rub salt in a wound
- rub salt in(to) the/(one's) wound(s)
- rub salt into the wound
- rub salt into the wound/into somebody's wounds
- salt
- salt (something) down
- salt (something) with (something)
- salt a mine
- salt and pepper
- salt away
- salt away, to
- salt down
- salt horse
- salt in the/(one's) wound(s)
- salt mines
- salt of the earth
- salt of the earth, the
- salt the books
- salt the mine
- salt with
- salt-and-pepper
- sit below the salt
- sit beneath the salt
- take (something) with a grain of salt
- take (something) with a pinch of salt
- take something with a pinch of salt
- take with a pinch of salt
- the salt of the earth
- throw salt on someone’s game
- with a grain of salt
- with a grain/pinch of salt, (to take)
- with a pinch of salt
- worth (one's) salt
- worth one’s salt
- worth one's salt, to be
- worth salt
- worth your salt
- worth your/its salt
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