salt mine
a mine from which salt is excavated.
Usually salt mines. a place of habitual confinement and drudgery: After two weeks of vacation it will be back to the salt mines for the staff.
Origin of salt mine
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How to use salt mine in a sentence
It ain't the salt mines or a shoe factory, but it's deadly dull.
Will it be some men who wait at home to pamper a wife back from a long day in the salt mines?
‘The Richer Sex’: How Women Became the New Breadwinners | Matthew DeLuca | March 20, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNorthwich, famous for its salt mines, was the only town of any consequence until we reached Chester.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyThe great Kanawha coal-fields and iron- and salt-mines are unsurpassed by any now known in any part of the globe.
Hall, from time immemorial famous for its salt mines, is well worth a visit.
Tyrol and its People | Clive Holland
The next day I visited the celebrated salt-mines at Wielitska.
Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 | John Lloyd StephensIt is found in small herds, and, being fond of salt, is generally most abundant in the neighbourhood of salt mines.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon | Robert A. Sterndale
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