salt of the earth
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "People who are firm but fair, and fair but firm, are the salt of the earth."
- "Yee are the ſalt of the earth: But if the ſalt haue loſt his ſauour, wherewith ſhall it bee ſalted: It is thencefoꝛth good foꝛ nothing, but to be caſt out, and to be troden vnder foote of men."
- "Dodger fans, convinced they were the salt of the earth, would swear they could tell a Yankee fan from 20 paces by a lack of humor, or a New York Giant fan by an overbearing quality."
- ""When someone dies, especially when a life is cut short under tragic circumstances, people always say, 'they were great, they were the salt of the earth,'" said Hagit Hornstein, a friend and colleague of Cherkesky. "But Michal [Cherkesky] really was perfect. There's no other word to describe her, an angel. I miss her already.""