noun
A little salt will bring out the flavour
Yes, do invite Randolph, for he can be relied on to add a little salt to the dinner conversation
Her conversation is sprinkled with the salt of clever aphorisms
You have to take what he says with a grain of salt
verb
The pirate's speech was salted with expressions like 'Shiver me timbers!', 'Avast there!', and 'Blow me down!'
The book gives several recipes for curing ham and salting beef
They were always terribly stingy, claiming they were salting something away for their old age
adjective
The water had a salt taste
Do you like salt herring?
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