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                           Phrase(s): salt something with something  1. Lit. to put a variety of salt or a salt substitute onto some food.  •  Oscar salts his food with a salt substitute.  •  Did you salt your meat with salt or something else? 2. Fig. to put something into something as a lure. (Refers to putting a bit of gold dust into a mine in order to deceive someone into buying the mine.)  •  The land agent salted the bank of the stream with a little gold dust hoping for a land rush to start.  •  Someone salted the mine to fool the prospectors.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs