WORTH ONE'S SALT

Meaning of WORTH ONE'S SALT in English

phrasal

: worth one's salary or keep

is so useless as to be hardly worth his salt

also : having substantial or significant value or merit

it isn't long before an author worth his salt can emerge with material for a best seller — Phyllis McGinley

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

WORTH ONE'S SALT — phrasal of substantial or significant value or merit
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
WORTH ONE'S SALT — : of substantial or significant value or merit
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WORTH ONE'S SALT — of substantial or significant value or merit
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
WORTH ONE'S SALT — good or competent at one's job or allotted task. → salt
Concise Oxford English vocab
WORTH ONE'S SALT — {adj. phr.} Being a good worker, or a productive person; worth what you cost. * /Mr. Brown showed that he …
Slang English vocab
WORTH ONE'S SALT — {adj. phr.} Being a good worker, or a productive person; worth what you cost. * /Mr. Brown showed that he …
Словарь английских идиом
WORTH ONE`S SALT — being a good worker, worth what one is paid He has only been working here for a month but over …
English Idioms vocab
WORTH ONE'S SALT — adj. phr. Being a good worker, or a productive person; worth what you cost. Mr. Brown showed that he was …
American Idioms English vocabulary
WORTH ONE'S SALT — заслуживать полученного вознаграждения He is very unreliable - I don't think he worths his salt.
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь сленга, жаргона, русских имен
WORTH ONE'S SALT — заслуживать полученное вознаграждение
Англо-Русский словарь идиом
WORTH ONE'S SALT — заслуживать полученного вознаграждения He is very unreliable - I don't think he worths his salt.
English Russian slang dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SALT — I Chemical compound formed when the hydrogen of an acid is replaced by a metal or its equivalent, such as …
Английский словарь Британика
WORTH — I. ˈwərth, ˈwə̄th, ˈwəith intransitive verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English worthen, from Old English weorthan, wurthan; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SALT — I. ˈsȯlt, chiefly Brit ˈsält noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sealt; akin to Old Frisian, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ONE — I. |wən adjective Etymology: Middle English oon, on, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WORTH — worth 1 /werrth/ , prep. 1. good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SALT — salt 1 — saltlike , adj. /sawlt/ , n. 1. a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — /wun/ , adj. 1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WORTH — I. ˈwərth intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English weorthan; akin to Old High German werdan to become, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SALT — I. ˈsȯlt noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sealt; akin to Old High German salz salt, Lithuanian saldus sweet, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ONE — I. ˈwən adjective Etymology: Middle English on, an, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WORTH — adj valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. 2. worth ·adj deserving of; in a good or bad sense, …
Webster English vocab
SALT — noun marshes flooded by the tide. 2. salt ·noun fig.: bitter; sharp; pungent. 3. salt ·noun fig.: salacious; lecherous; lustful. …
Webster English vocab
WORTH — [worth] vi [ME, fr. OE weorthan; akin to OHG werdan to become, L vertere to turn, Lith versti to overturn, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SALT — [salt] n [ME, fr. OE sealt; akin to OHG salz salt, Lith saldus sweet, L sal salt, Gk hals salt, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SALT — in chemistry, substance produced by the reaction of an acid with a base. A salt consists of the positive ion …
Britannica English vocabulary
SALT — salt, Salt, SALT BrE AmE sɔːlt sɒlt sɑːlt — Preference poll, British English: sɔːlt 43%, sɒlt 57%. ▷ salted ˈsɔːlt …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WORTH — / wɜːθ; NAmE wɜːrθ/ adjective , noun ■ adjective [ not before noun ] (used like a preposition, followed by …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SALT — / sɔːlt; NAmE ; BrE also sɒlt/ noun , verb , adjective ■ noun 1. [ U ] a white …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WORTH — I. worth 1 S1 W2 /wɜːθ $ wɜːrθ/ BrE AmE preposition [ Language: Old English ; Origin: weorth 'worthy, of …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SALT — I. salt 1 S2 W3 /sɔːlt $ sɒːlt/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: sealt ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ONE — I. one 1 S1 W1 /wʌn/ BrE AmE number 1 . the number 1: They had one daughter. one hundred …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WORTH — adj. & n. --predic.adj. (governing a noun like a preposition) 1 of a value equivalent to (is worth ø50; is …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SALT — n., adj., & v. --n. 1 (also common salt) sodium chloride; the substance that gives sea water its characteristic taste, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WORTH — adj. & n. predic.adj. (governing a noun like a preposition) 1 of a value equivalent to (is worth $50; is …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SALT — n., adj., & v. n. 1 (also common salt) sodium chloride; the substance that gives sea water its characteristic taste, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ONE — adj., n., & pron. adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WORTH — adj. & n. --predic.adj. (governing a noun like a preposition) 1. of a value equivalent to (is worth {pound}50; is …
Oxford English vocab
SALT — n., adj., & v. --n. 1. (also common salt) sodium chloride; the substance that gives sea water its characteristic taste, …
Oxford English vocab
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1. single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Oxford English vocab
WORTH — Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If something is worth a particular …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SALT — ( salts, salting, salted) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Salt is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE — ( ones) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. One is the number …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WORTH — Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If something is ~ a particular …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
WORTH — I. preposition COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be (well) worth the effort (= used to say that something is worth doing …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SALT — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a high sugar/salt/fibre etc content ▪ Red meat tends to have a high fat …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WORTH — [adjective] [after verb; not gradable]Worth means important or useful.Events like this will not be worth a mention (= are not …
Cambridge English vocab
SALT — [adjective] [before noun; not gradable]Salt water is sea water.salt water lakes/lagoonssalt water fish/plantsThe estuary - a partially enclosed bay where …
Cambridge English vocab
SALT — Synonyms and related words : AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Attic, Atticism, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Tabasco, Varuna, Worcestershire …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
WORTH — See: BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH, FOR ALL ONE IS WORTH, GAME IS NOT WORTH …
Slang English vocab
WORTH — • ↑ be worth • ↑ be worth a fortune • ↑ be worth a lot • ↑ it's worth …
Longman Activator English vocab
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Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
WORTH — See: BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH, FOR ALL ONE IS WORTH, GAME IS NOT WORTH …
Словарь английских идиом
SALT — Indispensable as salt is to ourselves, it was even more so to the Hebrews, being to them not only an …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
WORTH — I noun BAD : The ring has great sentimental worth. GOOD : The ring has great sentimental value. BAD : …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
ONE — pronoun 1 BAD : Fluency in English is one of the best qualifications you can have. GOOD : Fluency in …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
WORTH — I 1. сущ. 1) цена, стоимость, ценность intrinsic worth ≈ внутренняя ценность comparable worth net worth Syn : merit 2) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SALT — 1. сущ. 1) а) соль; пищевая, поваренная соль to pour salt ≈ сыпать соль garlic salt ≈ соль с чесноком …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
WORTH — worth.ogg _I 1. wɜ:θ n 1. ценность, значение; достоинство discoveries of great worth - открытия, имеющие важное значение poems of …
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