salt mine

See also: saltmine

English

Alternative forms

• saltmine

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

• Dutch: zoutmijn (nl) f
• Estonian: soolakaevandus
• Finnish: suolakaivos (fi)
• French: mine de sel f
• German: Salzbergwerk (de) n
• Greek: αλατωρυχείο (el) n (alatorycheío)
• Hungarian: sóbánya (hu)
• Italian: salina (it) f
• Persian: معدن نمک (ma'dan-e namak)
• Polish: salina (pl) f, kopalnia soli f
• Romanian: salină (ro) f
• Russian: соляна́я копь f (soljanája kopʹ), соляна́я ша́хта f (soljanája šáxta)
• Swedish: saltgruva (sv) c
• Turkish: tuzla (tr), tuz madeni
• Ukrainian: соляна́ ша́хта f (soljaná šáxta)
• Uyghur: تۇز كانى (tuz kani)

laborious work

See also

• coalface
• salt the mine

Anagrams

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