pound salt
verb1
To grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device.
2
Synonym of pound sand.
- He still persisted and, at that point, I guess, being born and raised in New York City, I had had enough of him and I said, 'Hey, you can go pound salt.'1987, Charles R. Ashman, Pamela Trescott, Diplomatic Crime, page 278:
- I was so mad I had a good mind to tell them to go pound salt.2007, Joseph L. Aiello, Rightsizing Inventory, page 367:
1 more example
- But instead of telling her to go pound salt, I realize, as Yogi Berra might say, you can hear a lot just by listening.2007, William Edgar Schmickle, The Politics of Historic Districts, page 74: