old salt

For all his years on the sea, he looked more like an English professor than an old salt.

The arguments are not always of the old salt variety.

And, like many an old salt, the birds can work up a thirst.

It was named after the old salt pans that are in the bay.

Throughout his political career he was known as Old Salt.

Dan says "the old salts say you can set your watch by it."

Being incidents in the life of an old salt.

"He's an old salt," the young woman said, throwing her arm around his shoulders.

In the powder magazine they found an old salt smoking his pipe.

This literary reference took me aback coming from an old salt.

"I must have some old salt in my veins."

The old salt was not shy with his observations.

He passed his splinter to the next man, and the old salt pried off another.

The captain hardly fits the image of crusty old salt.

But old salts observing the scene say it lacks one thing: its own judge.

The cost of transforming the old salt factory would probably come to at least $3 million, he said.

Lately though, Portland has traded its old salt image for one more cosmopolitan.

Mr. Smith, 37, had all the trappings of an old salt.

So, why are two old salts living in Santa Fe?

"Well, sir," said the old salt, apologetically, "they told me as she were going down."

The church was sited on an old salt and herring trading route.

An old salt once declared that a sailing ship is the closest thing to dreams made by the hands of man.

"In the old days," an old salt said after the first mark, "that would be the end of the series.

As he walked, the old salt rambled on about the Black Cat.