salt-and-pepper
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.
salt and pepper
1. n. a black and white police car. There is a salt and pepper around the corner waiting for speeders.
2. mod. interracial, including black and white. It was sort of a salt and pepper meeting, with representatives from all neighborhoods.
See also: and, pepper, salt
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- salt
- salt and pepper
- (as) black as night
- black as night
- black as pitch
- (as) black as pitch
- slickum
- get in (one's) hair
- get in somebody's hair
- out of curl