salt the mine

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see salt, the, mine.
    — He then discovered that Lovell had salted the mine with ore from the Little Pittsburgh.
  2. To set up a confidence trick; to plant false evidence of the value of something. broadly
    — "Yes. I thought it would be a shrewd move to salt the mine." I didn't get this. She seemed to me an aunt who was talking in riddles.

词形变化

salts the mine present,singular,third-person salting the mine participle,present salted the mine participle,past salted the mine past
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