salt mine

English

Noun

salt mine (plural salt mines)

1. Any mine used for the extraction of salt.
2. (by extension) Any laborious work situation, especially in a confined space.
3. (Internet slang, derogatory) An abundance of indignation felt by one person or a group of people due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, disappointment, or defeat; a gold mine (sense 3) of salt (noun sense 11).

   The fan forum was an absolute salt mine after the football team's loss to the last-place team in its division.

Translations

mine

• Finnish: suolakaivos (fi)
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• Greek: αλατωρυχείο (el) n (alatorycheío)
• Uyghur: تۇز كانى (tuz kani)

laborious work

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See also

• coalface
• salt the mine

Anagrams

• Simental, ailments, aliments, manliest, mentalis, smaltine, talismen