salt of the earth
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1. salt of the earth - Noun
2. salt of the earth - Phrase
Meaning
salt of the earth
(idiomatic) A person or group of people considered to represent the most decent and admirable parts of humanity.
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The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
Don't get me wrong. These people are mine. I like and in many ways admire them. They're the salt of the earth. It's simply that I want other condiments too.
We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.
People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.
The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.