Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is the salt of the earth and its meaning is “a person or group of people who is/are considered to very kind/good and honest or reliable”.
Example Sentence: In a society as deeply militarized and patriarchal as America, vets (veterans) and mothers are powerful symbols of the existing order. Seeing them protest against the government, and particularly a dubious and unnecessarily violent paramilitary unit, is a publicity problem for the Trump administration. These are the salt of the earth of the Republican electorate (voters), who will not automatically assume these groups are in the wrong (at fault).
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Opinion Donald Trump Trump badly miscalculated in Portland – and even he knows it and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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