salt away

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How to use salt away in a sentence

Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.
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He observes the bodies floating away on the river, pulling on his cigarette with a sneer.
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So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.
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But sources said that the evidence so far is pointing away from an ISIS connection.
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In this war, the targeting is often happening on computer monitors thousands of miles away, capturing images from drones.
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It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
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She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.
Confidence|Henry James
If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
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The bear laughed and joined his companion, and the torpedo thundered away.
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Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.
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Other Idioms and Phrases with salt away

salt away

Also, salt down. Keep in reserve, store, save, as in He salted away most of his earnings in a bank account. This idiom alludes to using salt as a food preservative. [Mid-1800s]

salt away

less commonly salt down

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