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单词 sit below the salt
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sit below the salt

Be of lower social standing or worth: paperback publishers used to be considered people who sat below the salt...
  • The "salt" was passed from here up the table, and if you sat below the salt you were not only "not worth your salt" but you didn't get any.
  • At dinner, important people were seated ‘above the salt’, servants and low ranking individuals sat ‘below the salt’.
From the former custom of placing a large salt cellar in the middle of a dining table with the host at one end
See parent entry: salt
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