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
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
eat someone's salt
Rur. to be someone's guest. The least you can do when you're eating someone's salt is to help them out around the house. That good-for-nothing Jim was flirting with Bill's wife at the same time he was eating Bill's salt.
See also: eat, salt
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- eat salt
- eat salt with
- eat salt with (someone)
- eat someone out of house and home, to
- keep open house
- open house, keep
- tiny house
- ask up
- out of square
- shack up with someone