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Definition of salt mine in English: salt minenoun 1A mine yielding rock salt. Example sentencesExamples - The salt mines were no joke, they were the highest punishment anyone could get in Mhalta; most people preferred death than working endless hours in the mines, with the cold and the wet and the air that was too thick to breathe it.
- Salt comes usually from salt mines, but you could always buy ‘sea-salt’ and use that.
- Most of the salt used by the agency is mined at the rock salt mine in the Cheshire town of Winsford.
- The marsh is at the site of an abandoned salt mine.
- There was a birthday trip into the nether world of a salt mine, where, along with the labarynthine tunnels, the miners had hewn for themselves not one, not two, but three chapels - cut into the white rock.
- 1.1usually salt mineshumorous A job involving demanding or gruelling work.
so it's back to the salt mines here in Cambridge Example sentencesExamples - My wife goes to the salt mines; I stay home and have the gals over in the afternoon for bonbons and pink squirrels.
- There have been a series of summer transfer stories (or in actual fact non-stories) which have had the fans working long and hard in the salt mines that are the football forums.
- So it's back to the salt mines here in Cambridge.
- So… are we calling it a day or are you going to make us spend all day at the salt mines?
- But until then, it's back to the salt mines (law firm) for me…
Definition of salt mine in US English: salt minenoun 1A mine yielding rock salt. Example sentencesExamples - The salt mines were no joke, they were the highest punishment anyone could get in Mhalta; most people preferred death than working endless hours in the mines, with the cold and the wet and the air that was too thick to breathe it.
- There was a birthday trip into the nether world of a salt mine, where, along with the labarynthine tunnels, the miners had hewn for themselves not one, not two, but three chapels - cut into the white rock.
- The marsh is at the site of an abandoned salt mine.
- Most of the salt used by the agency is mined at the rock salt mine in the Cheshire town of Winsford.
- Salt comes usually from salt mines, but you could always buy ‘sea-salt’ and use that.
- 1.1usually salt mineshumorous Used in reference to a person's job or place of work.
we had a lot of fun, but tomorrow it's back to the salt mines Example sentencesExamples - So it's back to the salt mines here in Cambridge.
- There have been a series of summer transfer stories (or in actual fact non-stories) which have had the fans working long and hard in the salt mines that are the football forums.
- So… are we calling it a day or are you going to make us spend all day at the salt mines?
- My wife goes to the salt mines; I stay home and have the gals over in the afternoon for bonbons and pink squirrels.
- But until then, it's back to the salt mines (law firm) for me…
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