Definition of worth your salt

worth (one's) salt

• to be worth of one's salary.

  Last edited on Aug 28 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 28 2010.

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Other terms relating to 'salt':
pour salt on (one's) game	Definitions include: To cock-block, to spoil someone's chance at accomplishment usually sexual.
salt	Definitions include: Used when you do something stupid.
salt up	Definitions include: to tell a different lie when covering up something.
take with a grain of salt	Definitions include: to be skeptical about.
Other terms relating to 'worth':
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.	Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
FWIW	Definitions include: acronym for "for what it's worth".
is the juice worth the squeeze?	Definitions include: "is the outcome worth the effort?"
Worth Bread	Definitions include: having worth, or any contribution to society.
worthless as tits on a boar hog	Definitions include: very worthless.
worthless as tits on a bore hog	Definitions include: misspelling of worthless as tits on a boar hog.
worth (one's) weight in gold	Definitions include: to be extremely valuable.

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