pound salt

English

Verb

pound salt (third-person singular simple present pounds salt, present participle pounding salt, simple past and past participle pounded salt)

1. To grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device.
2. Alternative form of pound sand
   • 1987, Charles R. Ashman, Pamela Trescott, Diplomatic Crime, page 278:

     He still persisted and, at that point, I guess, being born and raised in New York City, I had had enough of him and I said, 'Hey, you can go pound salt.'

   • 2007, Joseph L. Aiello, Rightsizing Inventory, page 367:

     I was so mad I had a good mind to tell them to go pound salt.

   • 2007, William Edgar Schmickle, The Politics of Historic Districts, page 74:

     But instead of telling her to go pound salt, I realize, as Yogi Berra might say, you can hear a lot just by listening.

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