| 单词 | to eat salt with | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat salt with  b.  Taken as a type of a necessary adjunct to food, and hence as a symbol of hospitality.  to eat salt with (a person),  to eat (a person's) salt: to enjoy his hospitality; also occasionally to be dependent upon him. bread and salt: see bread and salt n. at bread n. Phrases 2d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > hospitality > 			[noun]		 > symbol of salt1382 cake and wine1867 1382    Bible 		(Wycliffite, E.V.)	 Ezra iv. 14  				Wee thanne mynde hauende of the salt that in the paleis wee eeten. 1539    R. Taverner tr.  Erasmus Prouerbes sig. D.vi  				Trust noman, onles thou hast fyrst eaten a bushel of salte wyth hym. [Cf. Gk. τῶν ἁλῶν συγκατεδηδοκέναι μέδιμνον.] 1581    G. Pettie tr.  S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. 		(1586)	  i. 11 b  				You who haue eaten much salt out of your owne house. 1608    Bp. J. Hall Epist. I.  i. viii  				Abandon those from your table and salt, whom your own..experience shall descry dangerous. 1809    Duke of Wellington in  G. R. Gleig Life 		(1862)	 App. 702  				The real fact is..I have eaten the King's salt. 1814    Ld. Byron Corsair  ii. iv. 37  				Why dost thou shun the salt? that sacred pledge, Which, once partaken..Makes even contending tribes in peace unite. 1853    W. M. Thackeray Newcomes 		(1854)	 I. v. 43  				One does not eat a man's salt, as it were, at these dinners. There is nothing sacred in this kind of London hospitality. 1889    W. E. Norris Miss Shafto i  				One has no business to eat a man's salt and then say nasty things about him. < as lemmas | 
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