figurative. (the) salt of the earth (after Matthew v. 13): the excellent of the earth; formerly, in trivial use, the powerful, aristocratic, or…
figurative. singular and plural. People of the highest quality or rank (collectively); ‘grandees’, ‘swells’. ? Obsolete.
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