Salt : nm Le salt is a white, crumbly, water-soluble substance of a taste spicy, and which is used for seasoning and preserving food.
Add or add a grain of salt: interfering, usually inappropriately, in a conversation or a business.
It is not lacking in salt: What gives a lively and spicy interest to the speeches, to the works of the mind.
It's like a soup without salt: activity without interest when you remove an element.
Put salt on the wound: add to the torments that a person is already undergoing.
Put a little salt in your life:
Eat à la gogossel: eat without any seasoning other than salt (Lyonnais slang).
Make the salt: someone who makes the salt is someone who is smart because he knows that we need him and that we can not do without.
Eat with salt crunch: eat with only salt (like radishes with salt crunch)
Attic salt: the fine joke.
Table without salt: mouth without saliva.
It is too late to add salt, when the meat already smells bad.
Sulking in love is like salt: you don't need too much (Sanskrit Proverb).
Salt and advice are only given to those who ask for it.
He who takes a wife to enrich himself, eats salt to quench his thirst.
To know each other well, you have to eat seven bags of salt together (Breton Proverb).
According to an old superstition, knocking over a salt shaker would bring bad luck. But if this happens to you, know that a pinch of salt thrown over the left shoulder ward off bad luck.
Salt, present in many religious ceremonies, is a pledge of hospitality, when it is placed on the table.
With a grain of salt (from the Latin expression Cum grain salis): with doubt, with caution.
In the Middle Ages, salt was the symbol of a bond of brotherhood. " Amicitia pactum salis Which translates to "Friendship is a pact of salt".