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.

salt

n. a sailor. (Especially with old.) I’ve sailed a little, but you could hardly call me an old salt.

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a grain of salt
above the salt
any (one) worth (one's) salt
Attic salt
back to the salt mines
be worth (one's) keep
be worth (one's) salt
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 out
salt the books
salt the mine
salt with
salt-and-pepper
sit below the salt
sit beneath the salt
take (something) with a dash of 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 dash of salt
take what (one) says with a grain 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 dash of salt
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

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