salt

Related to salt: rock salt

salt-and-pepper

A 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.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

salt

n. a sailor. (Especially with old.) I’ve sailed a little, but you could hardly call me an old salt.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a grain of 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/(one's) wound(s)
  • pour salt on(to) the/(one'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 (one's) game
  • 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 what (one) says with a pinch of salt
  • take with a pinch of salt
  • the salt of the earth
  • throw salt on (one's) game
  • 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
References in periodicals archive
little research on pink Himalayan salt exists, and other people insist that these extravagant health claims are nothing more than speculation.
Pink Himalayan salt healthier than regular table salt
Landing on shelves this week, Natural Sea Salt and Olive Oil & Herb (rsp: PS1.65/6x25g) will be backed by a campaign from September.
Walkers adds duo of reduced salt crisps
The new research, which analysed 555 savoury picnic finger foods available from retailers, found high levels of salt in these products whereby one in four would qualify for a red label on the front of the pack.
Queen Mary University of London: New survey reveals dangerously high salt levels in picnic foods
Half of products were higher in salt than their average salt targets and 17 per cent had more salt than their maximum target, according to the analysis by Action on Salt.
Savoury picnic foods 'have more salt than McDonald's burger'
Talking to a Pakistan Television (PTV) channel she said, Pink Himalayan salt, a type of salt that is naturally pink in color and mined near the Himalayas in Pakistan.
Pink Himalayan salt healthier than regular table salt
No manufacturing company can create a substance that matches the healing and health properties of natural salt.
8 Health Benefits of Unrefined Natural Salt
We need salt (NHS recommends adults eat no more than 6g salt a day) but it has to be the right type
Live healthy with Heather
To test SA's salt-smarts, a prevention-minded pharma company conducted an online poll among men and women across the country in the weeks leading up to World Salt Awareness Week (4 -- 10 March).
Survey: South Africans still clueless about salt content in food
Looking at the white pristine product reminded me of the vaunted French fleur de sel (flower of salt).
There's more to salt than its taste
Actually, our body requires a little salt. Nutritionists say that the amount of salt needed to sustain life is 220 milligrams a day-the amount in one-tenth of a teaspoon.
Shake off that salt habit this 2019
The latest shipment of Chinese salt reached Phnom Penh Autonomous Port at the end of November, bringing the salt stockpile volume to 10,000 tonnes.
Chinese salt imports reach Cambodia at $100 per tonne
This was stated by Said Hameed, the zonal manager Salt Iodization Programme Lower Dir while talking to this reporter here.
Non-iodized salt being supplied to remote hilly villages in Dir
Throughout history, the human body has been accustomed to having all these elements in salt to help keep it healthy.
Reduce your salt intake to prevent stomach cancer
As the summer vacation has begun, Southwest Coast National Scenic Area Administration (SCNSAA) is warming up the 2018 Salt and Sand Sculpture Art Festival, a large-scale annual event in Taiwan's southwest coast, with a light sculpture event at Taiwan Salt Museum that runs from July 1 to July 14.
Light sculpture lights up 2018 Salt and Sand Sculpture Art Festival in southwest coast of Taiwan
Karachi -- Pakistan is the only country, which has pink colored salt having highest export value while rest of the regions having rock salt deposits have only white or greyish white rock salt and the color pink is the result of various minerals naturally found in pink salt including iron which plays an important role in the eradication of iron deficiency a major health issue around the globe.
World Salt conference suggests Pakistan having big export potential of Himalayan Salt