salt the mine (English, verb)
expansion: salt the mine (third-person singular simple present salts the mine, present participle salting the mine, simple past and past participle salted the mine)
Senses:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see salt, the, mine.
glosses: To set up a confidence trick; to plant false evidence of the value of something.
tags: broadly
Forms:
form: salts the mine
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: salting the mine
tags: participle
present
form: salted the mine
tags: participle
past
form: salted the mine
tags: past