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Salt mine   /sɔlt maɪn/   Listen
Salt mine

noun
1.
A mine where salt is dug.
2.
A job involving drudgery and confinement.  Synonym: treadmill.





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"Salt mine" Quotes from Famous Books



... there is a splendid show which Mr. Jerdan wants us to see at Lord Warremore de Tabley's; it is a vast salt mine of twenty acres, cut into a symmetrical columned gallery! He says it shall be lighted up, so that we shall walk in a diamond corridor. Mr. Jerdan said that salt used to be the medium of traffic in those districts; ...
— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop


Words linked to "Salt mine" :   job, line, business, line of work, treadmill, occupation, mine


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