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attic salt

noun

  1. dry, delicate wit.


Attic salt

noun

  1. refined incisive wit
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of attic salt1

First recorded in 1750–60
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Example Sentences

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Triumph swam in my father’s eyes, at the repartee—the Attic salt brought water into them—and so Obadiah heard no more about it.

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His humour was the pure Attic salt.

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Let the sprightly epigram never lighten the long periods of your speech nor the Attic salt flavour the roast beef of your conversation.

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If the same had been told by the patrician Palmerston, instead of the plebeian Lincoln, they would not have lacked the "Attic salt," but would have rivaled Dean Swift or Sidney Smith.

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Alas, if I had only taken the supposed rapidity of my progress with a grain of attic salt!

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