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vb. (en-pastsalt away)
Usage examples of "salted away".
Why would Gray consider such a scheme when he already had much more salted away than any raid on the warehouse would bring him?
The extra animals would have already been killed and their meat smoked or salted away against winter's barrenness and the quiet hunger of spring.
The extra animals would have already been killed and their meat smoked or salted away against winters barrenness and the quiet hunger of spring.
Microsoft has been trying to prove he still has the odd billion or two salted away.
The least of them had personal fortunes of over $40 million--one had nearly $300 million salted away in various Swiss banks--more than enough to live a comfortable life in any country in the world.
They'd salted away what the poet managed to smuggle to her, all the time he was dying, when his mother wasn't looking.
Every year she salted away the vast majority of her salary in stocks and bonds, and though the stock market was down right now, she sat tight on her investments.
We salted away a few essential personnel - knights and hermits and sages and the like - just in case.
He had enough money salted away so that he could buy an unassuming house somewhere and pay cash for it, but he couldn’.
On the other hand, there may be money salted away, possibly in large quantities.
Marcus, I reckon this is where the money from the corruption was salted away.
Two: Newbegin might want to put his hands on some of the money he has salted away, so I have put a search through the British banks for any blocked account that has San Antonio as a base.
Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.
There's always the possibility, of course, that the foundation has your father salted away in the same cold place as Adam Zimmerman, but we don't think it's likely.