Or was a friend in a recent email really referring to something having to do with salt mines?
2007-05-15 00:24:43 · 6 answers · asked by xxxxxxxxx 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Going to work.
2007-05-15 00:27:04 · answer #1 · answered by Alice K 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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What does the expression "a trip to the salt mines" mean?
Or was a friend in a recent email really referring to something having to do with salt mines?
2015-08-07 15:02:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Typically associated with some kind of punishment. People in the old USSR that broke political laws (ie went against the Government etc) were literally sent to the salt mines (in Siberia - I think but not sure) as a mannual labour penalty instead of just going to jail.
The hours would be long and very physically demanding.
This would also remove them far from family and friends and serve as an additional form of punishment in terms of being isolated.
2007-05-15 00:32:59 · answer #3 · answered by L55 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is more commonly phrased: "back to the salt mines".It simply means back to hard work-usually used semi-sarcastically in today's workplace since working in the salt mines was horribly dangerous usually forced labor for prisoners in Russia.
2007-05-15 07:10:06 · answer #4 · answered by SR.REPUESTO 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Here in the South it means going to work.
2007-05-15 02:52:37 · answer #5 · answered by caroline j 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it might mean taking a trip to visit a mine where salt is dug out of for commercial use.
2007-05-15 00:29:33 · answer #6 · answered by wolfmano 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Salzburg
2007-05-15 00:28:00 · answer #7 · answered by RexRomanus 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋