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salt

n. a sailor. (Especially with old.) I’ve sailed a little, but you could hardly call me an old salt.

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• above the salt
• any (one) worth (one's) salt
• any [judge etc.] worth salt
• Attic salt
• back to the salt mines
• be the salt of the earth
• below the salt
• beneath the salt
• covenant of salt
• earn one's keep
• eat (one's) salt
• eat salt
• go back to the salt mines
• go pound salt
• go through
• go through like a dose of salts
• 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
• old salt
• pound salt
• pour salt in(to) the/(someone's) wound(s)
• rub in
• rub salt in a wound
• rub salt in the wound
• rub salt into wounds
• salt
• salt and pepper
• salt away
• salt down
• salt horse
• salt in the/(one's) wound(s)
• salt mines
• salt of the earth
• salt of the earth, the
• salt with
• take with a grain of salt
• take with a pinch of salt
• the salt of the earth
• throw salt on someone’s game
• with a grain of salt
• worth one’s salt
• worth salt