below the salt in English

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      "word": "above the salt"
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  "etymology_text": "See above the salt.",
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          "ref": "1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:",
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        "Common, vulgar; of low standing."
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        "(idiomatic) Common, vulgar; of low standing."
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  "word": "below the salt"
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    {
      "word": "above the salt"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "See above the salt.",
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    },
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          "text": "His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt.",
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        "Common, vulgar; of low standing."
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        "(idiomatic) Common, vulgar; of low standing."
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  "word": "below the salt"
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"below the salt" meaning in English

Prepositional phrase