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Man of Salt

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A man like Æneas, always “melting into salt tears,” called “drops of salt.”

“This would make a man a man of salt,

To use his eyes for garden waterpots.”


 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Man of Blood
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Man of December
Man of Destiny (The)
Man of Feeling
Man of Letters (A)
Man of Remnants (A)
Man of Ross
Man of Salt
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Man of Silence (The)
Man of Sin (The)
Man of Straw (A)
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Man of the Sea
Man of the Third Republic (The)
Man of the World (A)
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