salt of the earth

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salt of the earth

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. Frank's mother is the salt of the earth. She has five children of her own and yet fosters three others.

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I use heaps of postage stamps, pay the expenses of many indifferent lecturers, defray the cost of printing reams of pamphlets and hand-bills which hail the laborer flatteringly as the salt of the earth, write and edit a little socialist journal, and do what lies in my power generally. An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context These are rare souls; they are the salt of the earth. The American by James, Henry View in context			sage advice said sail sail against sail along sail around sail close to the wind sail for some place sail from some place to some place else sail in sail into sail through sail under false colors sail under false colours sail up a river sailing saint sake salad salad days sale sally forth salt salt away salt down salt of the earth salt with salute with salvage from sam same same as same difference Same here same o ' same o ' same old same old same old story same to you sand sand down sands of time sandwich sandwich between sang froid Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit sardine satiate with satisfy satisfy by satisfy with saturate with			salt lick salt lick salt lick Salt licks Salt licks Salt Loading Hypertensive Rats Salt March salt marsh salt marsh Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse salt marsh mallow Salt marshes Salt marshes Salt Meadow National Wildlife Refuge salt merchant salt mine salt mine salt mines Salt mining Salt mining Salt Model Working Group Salt Name Salt Names Salt of hartshorn salt of Lemery Salt of sorrel Salt of sorrel Salt of tartar Salt of tartar Salt of tartar salt of the earth Salt of tin salt out salt out salt out Salt Palace Convention Center Salt pan Salt pan Salt pans Salt pans Salt peter Salt peter Salt Pill salt pillow Salt Pit Salt Pit salt plain Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge salt plug Salt Point Sate Park Salt Point State Park Salt Point State Park Salt point state park, CA salt polygon Salt Poor Albumin salt pork Salt production Salt production Salt production Salt raker

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