Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Man of Salt

A man like Æneas, always “melting into salt tears,” called “drops of salt.”

This would make a man a man of salt,
To use his eyes for garden waterpots.

Shakespeare: King Lear, iv. 6.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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