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单词 the salt of the earth
释义

the salt of the earth

a person or people whom you admire for their honesty and reliability. This expression is used mainly by upper class people when they are talking about working people.
These are good people, rather rough-and-ready, but the salt of the earth.

Examples of 'the salt of the earth' in a sentence
the salt of the earth

I meet decent, caring, sometimes critical folk who are the salt of the earth.
The Sun (2008)
Radio is indeed the salt of the earth.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
I interviewed several, believe me, they're the salt of the earth.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Allotment gardeners are the salt of the earth.
The Sun (2009)
The salt of the earth mixed with stardust.
The Sun (2018)
But even people who are the salt of the earth, trying to do the right thing, can still be on a gravy train.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Then after about six months she re-emerged and started doing what she does best: cooking and generally being the salt of the earth.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A great, great person, you can see it in her eyes, she's the salt of the earth and everyone on the team knew that.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I don't cheer when some fool tells me we are the salt of the earth.
The Times Literary Supplement (2016)

Chinese translation of 'the salt of the earth'

the salt of the earth

  1. 社会(會)中坚(堅)分子 (shèhuì zhōngjiān fènzǐ)
See salt

Nearby words of
the salt of the earth

  • the Sahara (Desert)
  • the sales
  • the sales force
  • the salt of the earth
  • the Salvation Army
  • the same
  • the same as
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