| 单词 | salt of the earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(the) salt of the earth a. (the) salt of the earth (after Matthew v. 13): the excellent of the earth; formerly, in trivial use, the powerful, aristocratic, or wealthy; now also applied to a person or persons of great worthiness, reliability, honesty, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person > collectively (the) salt of the earthc950 tip-top1753 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one of high rank statec1449 top people1752 anybody1802 celestitude1824 big bug1826 wig1828 celestiality1837 (the) salt of the earth1842 high-up1882 big-timer1917 V.I.P.1933 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun] optimacy1579 aristocracy1651 great world1699 peerage1725 well-connected1788 governing class1795 patriciate1795 well-connected1831 caste1842 (the) salt of the earth1842 the leisured class(es1848 japonicadom1851 countyocracy1859 masterclass1861 proprietariat1872 four hundred1888 the Establishment1923 gratin1934 power élite1942 U1954 upper1955 topside1958 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. v. 13 Gee sint salt eorðes. c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 488 Ye been the salt of the erthe and the savour. ?c1420 26 Pol. Poems xxi. 145 Of erþe ȝe ben cleped salt, For salt of wisdom soule saues. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 57 The Uniuersities, of christendome which should be..the leauen, the salt, the seasoning of the world. 1790 H. Venn in Carus Life C. Simeon 84 They are the truly excellent of the earth—its salt, who..reach the heart and conscience. 1842 Lit. Gaz. 28 May 371/3 To dine like queens, kings, princes, potentates, and the other ‘salt of the earth’. 1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 517 The army was, under the Imperial system, the ‘salt’ of the Roman world. 1871 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. (1878) 1st Ser. 195 A little band, the supposed salt of the earth. 1916 G. B. Shaw Androcles & Lion p. xv They may not be the salt of the earth, these Philistines; but they are the substance of civilization. 1931 T. R. G. Lyell Slang, Phrase & Idiom Colloq. Eng. 659 If he's a friend of yours, you're a lucky man, for if ever a fellow was one of the salt of the earth, he is. He's the best man I've ever met, in every way. 1948 E. S. Gardner D.A. takes Chance x. 103 Eve was a mighty fine girl, and her mother is the salt of the earth. 1951 E. M. Forster Two Cheers for Democracy i. 56 If you don't like people, kill them, banish them, segregate them, and then strut up and down proclaiming that you are the salt of the earth. 1953 P. G. Wodehouse Performing Flea 78 You dine with the President on Monday, and he slaps you on the back and tells you you are the salt of the earth, and on Tuesday morning you get a letter from him saying you are fired. 1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone vi. 148 And such good friends they were too. Real salt of the earth. < as lemmas |
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