salt of the earth

[salt of the earth] {n. phr.}, {informal} One who helps to make society good and wholesome; a basically good or valuable person.

* /Everyone here considers Syd and Susan the salt of the earth because they are so generous./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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