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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



... of anecdotes. I will give but one, and I give this because it also illustrates a most loveable trait of character which abounds among these people—sympathy for suffering. Mrs. H. and myself started one day, to drive from New Iberia to the Avery salt mine, some ten miles distant. It was Monday following a hard Sunday's work speaking; it was as hot as days can be out in the Teche country, and when a little more than half way there, I was suffering from a terrific headache. We were ...
— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889 • Various


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


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