What does pound salt mean

Learn how your comment data is processed. Email Address:. Follow HOTIdioms. HOT Idioms. Skip to content. Volume 1. Issue Like this: Like Loading Last week, I also had an unusual experience with an idiom. But I did find some information online.

American phrase, so foreign listeners may not have heard the expression. As I always imagined, it's a way to dismiss someone or show contempt, but it has its roots in the idea of a pointless, menial task. Interestingly, the Dictionary of American Regional English has this meaning—go waste your time at a useless job—but it also has a longer, related idiom with a different meaning that seems to have come first: pound sand down a rat hole, which you use to say someone is stupid.

See my article about compound words. But I finally found an answer on The Phrase Finder , a site that specializes in idioms. Secondly , it suggests we hope that you can purchase your salt by weight, rather than by some predetermined container. Reminiscent of days gone by and the General Store era, we thought it would be a catchier name and there-in suggest that you can purchase your salts, peppers and sugars If your family and friends want to enjoy some of the best artisanal sea salts, organic peppercorns and organic cane sugars that are available today, tell them to "go lb.

If they slap you, then you didn't say it right! All prices are in USD. Please wait Brotein: Woah, a few beers? I only need one. Dad: Oh yeah I forgot that you pound salt. Tommy: Hey I woke up naked on my bed this morning with no girl Ricky Martin: Hah, yeah check this picture out of your lobster balls You pound salt, wanna get a burrito?

Kevin: Hey Box, wanna put it in the air? Often confused with 'go pound sand' but more refined and less vulgar. To pound sand infers 'up an orifice' but to pound salt has more to do with a useless activity. When the religious nut came to visit my house , I told him to go pound salt.