"salt mine" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-salt mine.wav Forms: salt mines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} salt mine (plural salt mines)
  1. Any mine used for the extraction of salt. Synonyms: saltmine Related terms: coalface, salt the mine Translations (mine): zoutmijn [feminine] (Dutch), soolakaevandus (Estonian), suolakaivos (Finnish), mine de sel [feminine] (French), Salzbergwerk [neuter] (German), αλατωρυχείο (alatorycheío) [neuter] (Greek), sóbánya (Hungarian), salina [feminine] (Italian), معدن نمک (ma'dan-e namak) (Persian), salina [feminine] (Polish), kopalnia soli [feminine] (Polish), salină [feminine] (Romanian), соляна́я копь (soljanája kopʹ) [feminine] (Russian), соляна́я ша́хта (soljanája šáxta) [feminine] (Russian), saltgruva [common-gender] (Swedish), tuzla (Turkish), tuz madeni (Turkish), соляна́ ша́хта (soljaná šáxta) [feminine] (Ukrainian), تۇز كانى (tuz kani) (Uyghur)
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  2. (by extension) Any laborious work situation, especially in a confined space. Tags: broadly
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  3. (Internet slang, derogatory) An abundance of indignation felt by one person or a group of people due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, disappointment, or defeat; a gold mine (sense 3) of salt (noun sense 11). Tags: Internet, derogatory
    Sense id: en-salt_mine-en-noun-HNJzih2I Categories (other): Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Persian translations Disambiguation of Terms with Estonian translations: 18 42 40 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 17 39 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 18 42 40

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.