eat someone's salt

eat someone's salt
eat someone's salt
Rur. to be someone's guest. •

The least you can do when you're eating someone's salt is to help them out around the house.

That good-for-nothing Jim was flirting with Bill's wife at the same time he was eating Bill's salt.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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