pound salt

present singular third person pounds salt · participle present pounding salt · participle past pounded salt · past pounded salt

1. To grind salt crystals into powder using a mortar and pestle or similar device.
2. Synonym of pound sand.

   I was so mad I had a good mind to tell them to go pound salt.

   2007, Joseph L. Aiello, Rightsizing Inventory, page 367

   2 more examples

   He still persisted and, at that point, I guess, being born and raised in New York City, I had had enough of him and I said, 'Hey, you can go pound salt.'

   1987, Charles R. Ashman, Pamela Trescott, Diplomatic Crime, page 278

   But instead of telling her to go pound salt, I realize, as Yogi Berra might say, you can hear a lot just by listening.

   2007, William Edgar Schmickle, The Politics of Historic Districts, page 74

   Synonyms: pound sand