In the middle ages salt was very rare and valuable, so a person "worth their weight" was a person who was needed and valuable.
In ancient times, salt was highly valuable and sometimes worth its weight in gold. Factors that influenced its value included scarcity, transportation costs, and demand for preserving food.
That sounds like a local version of a cliche that is used to say something is cheap. There are several different forms of this such as: "It's not worth its weight in salt.". Salt is cheap so that would not be worth much unless it was a heavy item. This is just a version that says it is so cheap that you could blow it up but then that would cost more in gun powder than what you are blowing up.
in ancient Ghana salt was more valuable. gold was everywhere whereas salt was rare. also salt was more valuable because salt helps you retain water which ment they could travel longer without water, increasing trade across the Sahara desert. also salt helped preserve food, making it worth more than gold
The Arabs traded salt for West African gold at equal weight. (Salt was incredibly rare in West Africa.)
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Yes it was the main currency hence the phrase worth its weight in salt or worth its salt.
Gold is very expensive...if you are worth your weight in gold than you are worth a lot...It means the person who said it thinks that you are WONDERFUL...a great person/valuable employee/good friend, etc.
The expression "he's not worth his salt" means that someone is not competent or valuable enough to justify their position or role. It implies that the person is not performing at the level expected of them.
Part of people's Salary from working used to be salt because salt was valuable back then. So "Not to be worth your salt" would be another way of saying that you haven't done enough work to earn your salary. Hope this helped.
In ancient times, salt was highly valuable and sometimes worth its weight in gold. Factors that influenced its value included scarcity, transportation costs, and demand for preserving food.
That sounds like a local version of a cliche that is used to say something is cheap. There are several different forms of this such as: "It's not worth its weight in salt.". Salt is cheap so that would not be worth much unless it was a heavy item. This is just a version that says it is so cheap that you could blow it up but then that would cost more in gun powder than what you are blowing up.
If you are referring to Amarula, any specialty liquor store worth their weight in salt will have it.
About a duck's weight in salt
They were both plentiful in the area. Salt was needed to prevent dehydration in such hot climates. Salt was worth its weight in gold. another thing is that salt was scarce in the savanna regions ... it was also sold in N. africa and europe:)
Your body needs salt, i.e. sodium. It means eat less salt than what you are normally eating...and does not mean no salt whatsoever on everything. It's just keeping salt to the minimal.
The equivalent weight of a salt is the molecular weight of the salt divided by the number of ions produced when the salt dissolves in water. It is used to calculate the amount of salt needed in a reaction based on the amount of ions present.
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