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Salt Bread or Bitter Bread

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The bread of affliction or humiliation. Bread too salt is both disagreeable to the taste and indigestible.

“Learning how hard it is to get back when once exiled, and how salt is the bread of others.”—Mrs. Oliphant: Makers of Florence, p. 85.

 

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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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Sallyport
Salmacis
Salmagundi
Salmon (Latin, salmo, to leap)
Salmon
Salmoneus
Salsabil
Salt
Salt
Salt Bread or Bitter Bread
Salt-cellar (A)
Salt Hill (Eton)
Salt Junk
Salt Lake
Salt Ring
Salt River
Salt an Invoice (To)
Salt in Beer
Salt in a Coffin
Salt Losing its Savour