What does salt away mean?

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salt away

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash awayverb

    keep or lay aside for future use

    "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"

Wiktionary

  1. salt awayverb

    To save or preserve (e.g. money) for future use (as if food, preserved in salt)

ChatGPT

  1. salt away

    "Salt away" is an idiomatic expression that generally means to save or store something, especially money, for future use. It originated from the practice of using salt to preserve food before the invention of refrigeration.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of salt away in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of salt away in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of salt away in a Sentence

  1. John Berger:

    A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

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