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"Sit below the salt" nghĩa là gì?
17 Dec, 2023
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'Sit below the salt' có từ salt là lọ muối, ngồi phía dưới/phía sau lọ muối, tức là ngồi cùng với người hầu (trong các gia đình quý tộc xưa) -> ý nói xuất thân từ tầng lớp thấp kém trong xã hội.
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Salt was once even used as an indicator (chỉ dấu, dấu hiệu) of social standing (thứ hạng xã hội) and worth (giá trị). To “sit below the salt”, meaning you were poor, comes from the old tradition of placing a salt cellar halfway down a dining table.
'This gaming of the system epitomises (là hình ảnh thu nhỏ, là mẫu mực) all that is wrong with executive pay (lương thưởng TGĐ) and clearly demonstrates the distance of the citadel from those placed below the salt.'
I worry only that the trend, in both broadcasting and newspapers, is increasingly biased these happy days against female writers who are a) terrifyingly bright and funny, and b) technically below the salt, in terms of privileged ability to fund themselves through three-year internships for sod-all pay.
‘Huge care is taken with seating plans,’ says Downton’s historical adviser Alastair Bruce. Lord Grantham sits at the centre of the table – in what was known as the ‘hot seat’ – closest to the fireplace. Principal guests are seated alongside him and would also be kept warm. In a tradition dating from the Middle Ages (thời kỳ Trung cổ), the salt cellar – lavishly (phung phí, hoang toàng) decorated (trang trí) as salt was a valuable commodity (thương phẩm có giá trị) – would be kept in the middle of the table. Those guests seated ‘below the salt’ were not allowed any.
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