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salt mine
noun
- a mine from which salt is excavated.
- Usually salt mines. a place of habitual confinement and drudgery:
After two weeks of vacation it will be back to the salt mines for the staff.
Word History and Origins
Origin of salt mine1
Example Sentences
The descent into the chilly salt mine caves is 800 steps down the shafts.
If you wanted work as a slave in a Roman salt mine, there was no need to move to Rome.
By acquiring partially mortgaged bills of exchange (salt mine, treasury bonds).
Mrs. H. and myself started one day, to drive from New Iberia to the Avery salt mine, some ten miles distant.
There is nothing like an enchanted palace in any salt mine of the United States, no statues or chapels or chandeliers.
Among them are a pair of boots and an old broom-head which were left in an old salt mine for fifteen years.
No one can go down a salt mine without asking, How did this salt come here?
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