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Rub salt in/into the wound - Rắc Muối Lên Vết Thương - to make a difficult situation even worse for someone Losing was bad enough, having to watch them receiving the trophy just rubbed salt into the wound.
- To make someone feel even worse about something rub it in
- It's too bad Vinnie couldn't come, but let's not tell him they let us in for free - there's no point rubbing salt into his wounds.
Fig. to deliberately make someone's unhappiness, shame, or misfortune worse.
- Don't rub salt in the wound by telling me how enjoyable the party was.
- Vinnie is feeling miserable about losing his job and Jack is rubbing salt into the wound by saying how good his replacement is.
Salt of the earth - Người quan trọng hay có lòng nhân ái- Fig. the most worthy of people; a very good or worthy person.
(A biblical reference, Matthew 5:13.)
- Mrs. Jones is the salt of the earth. She is the first to help anyone in trouble.
- Vinnie's wife is the salt of the earth. She has five children of her own and yet fosters three others.
- Be the salt of the earth - if someone is the salt of the earth, they are a very good and honest person.
- His mother's the salt of the earth. She'd give you her last penny.
- The salt of the earth the best people
- Farmers were described as the best, the salt of the earth, particularly when their products were needed to feed the army.
Back to the salt mines - Quay lại những việc cố hữu- Cliché time to return to work, school, or something else that might be unpleasant. (The phrase implies that the speaker is a slave who works in the salt mines.)
- It's one o'clock and lunch break is over. Back to the salt mines.
- School starts in the fall, so then it's back to the salt mines again.
Go (right) through someone and go through someone like a dose of the salts- Fig. [for something] to be excreted very soon after being eaten; [for something] to go immediately through the alimentary canal of a person. (Use with discretion.)
- No, thanks. This stuff just goes right through me. The coffee went through me like a dose of salts. - Go through somebody/something like a dose of salts (old-fashioned)
If something you eat goes through your body like a dose of salts, it goes through you very quickly
- Those beans went through me like a dose of salts.
Have something hung up and salted- Rur. to know everything about something.
(Often used ironically, as in the second example.)
- The historian sure had Louisiana history hung up and salted.
- Jim's sixteen years old, and he thinks he has the opposite sex hung up and salted.
Salt something away - Tiết kiệm; để dành; dự trữ- 1. Lit. to store and preserve a foodstuff by salting it. (muối thực phẩm)
- The farmer's wife salted a lot of fish and hams away for the winter.
- She salted away a lot of food. - 2. Fig. to store something; to place something in reserve; to save something, esp. money, for use at a later time.
- I need to salt some money away for my retirement.
- I will salt away some money for emergencies.
- It's not easy paying a mortgage, raising a young child, and salting away enough money for your retirement.
Salt something down - Làm tan băng / đá - to place salt on something, such as icy roads.
- I won't go out until midmorning, after they have salted the roads down.
- I hope they salt down the roads soon
Salt something with something - Thay thế Lừa Bịp ...- 1. Lit. to put a variety of salt or a salt substitute onto some food.
- Oscar salts his food with a salt substitute.
- Did you salt your meat with salt or something else? - 2. Fig. to put something into something as a lure.
(Refers to putting a bit of gold dust into a mine in order to deceive someone into buying the mine.)
- The land agent salted the bank of the stream with a little gold dust hoping for a land rush to start.
- Someone salted the mine to fool the prospectors.
Take something with a pinch of salt and take something with a grain of salt- Fig. to listen to a story or an explanation with considerable doubt.
- You must take anything she says with a grain of salt.
- She doesn't always tell the truth.
- They took my explanation with a pinch of salt. I was sure they didn't believe me.
- Take something with a grain of salt - to consider something to be not completely true or right
- I've read the article, which I take with a grain of salt. (Related vocabulary: hard to swallow)
Worth one's salt - Có giá trị, năng suất, đáng kính trọng... Đáng chi phí để giữ hoặc hỗ trợ.- Fig. worth (in productivity) what it costs to keep or support one.
- We decided that you are worth your salt, and you can stay on as office clerk.
- You're not worth your salt. Pack up! - Any judge, lawyer, teacher etc. who is good at their job
- Any lawyer worth his salt should be aware of the latest changes in taxation.
- No judge worth her salt would attempt to influence the jury. - Someone or something that deserves respect.
- Virtually any wine shop worth its salt carries at least a few wines from New Zealand.
- Any judge worth his salt would immediately report an attempt to influence the jury.
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