if someone is the salt of the earth, they are a very good and honest person.

His mother's the salt of the earth. She'd give you her last penny.

• short and sweet
• short-arse
• short-change
• short-change someone
• short for
• short for something
• short fuse
• short of
• short of something
• short on
• short on and long on
• short on and long on something else
• short on something
• short on something and long on
• short on something and long on something else
• short sharp shock
• short-term
• shot across the bow
• shotgun wedding
• shot in the arm
• shot in the dark
• shoulder to cry on
• shoulder to shoulder
• shout from the rooftops
• shouting match