eat (one's) salt



eat (one's) salt

To stay at someone's house. I feel bad eating Jim's salt for a week, but his house is closer to the meeting site than any hotel.
See also: eat, salt

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Zhenya-Russian, Bulgarian
TerÉZiaTE-ray-zee-aw (Hungarian)Hungarian, Slovak
Elihui-LIE-hyoo (English), ee-LIE-hyoo (English)Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, English (Archaic)
Frost[frɔst]
Ebele-Western African, Igbo
CoyKOIEnglish