Idiom
not worth salt
Meaning
Worthless.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That cheap tool is not worth its salt.”
“If a manager cannot lead the team effectively, they are not worth their salt.”
“The critic argued that a historian who ignores primary evidence is simply not worth their salt.”
Examples
simple
“That cheap tool is not worth its salt.”
contextual
“If a manager cannot lead the team effectively, they are not worth their salt.”
complex
“The critic argued that a historian who ignores primary evidence is simply not worth their salt.”
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