Idiom
Attic salt
Meaning
Pointed and delicate wit.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She uses attic salt to make her jokes sharp and clever.”
“During the dinner party, he impressed everyone with his attic salt and quick, witty remarks.”
“The author was famous for her attic salt, which allowed her to critique social customs with a delicate but biting sense of humor.”
Examples
simple
“She uses attic salt to make her jokes sharp and clever.”
contextual
“During the dinner party, he impressed everyone with his attic salt and quick, witty remarks.”
complex
“The author was famous for her attic salt, which allowed her to critique social customs with a delicate but biting sense of humor.”
Origin
Attic + salt; a calque of Latin sāl Atticus or sāl Atticum. In classical times “salt” was a frequent metaphor for “wit”.
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