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Noun: salt mine
  1. A mine where salt is dug
    "Workers descended into the salt mine to extract the valuable mineral"
     
  2. A job involving drudgery and confinement
    "Working in that factory was a real salt mine";
    - treadmill

Derived forms: salt mines

Type of: business, job, line, line of work, mine, occupation

Encyclopedia: Salt mine