salt of the earth

n. highly respected people, people of high morals

Salt of the Earth is an American drama film released in 1954 and written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico.All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their involvement in socialist politics.The film is about a labor strike in a zinc mine in New Mexico in the early 1950s, led by Mexican-Americans and Anglo miners. The film shows how the miners (the union men and their wives), the company, and the police react during the strike.
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Salt of the earth is a phrase that may be:English idiom: People who are salt of the earth are decent, dependable and unpretentious. "Salt of the Earth", the closing track to The Rolling Stones' 1968 album, Beggars Banquet.One of the metaphors of Salt and Light that occurs in the Sermon on the Mount according to the New TestamentThe title of the film Salt of the Earth (1953 film)The title of the film Salt of the Earth: Palestinian Christians in the Northern West Bank (2004 documentary)Salting the earth is a similarly-named but entirely different concept.
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Beggars Banquet is an LP released in 1968 by The Rolling Stones. It marked a return to the band's R&B roots, generally viewed as simpler and more primal than the conspicuous psychedelics of Their Satanic Majesties Request.
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"common people; honest, hard-working people" The Swensons are plain, decent people - salt of the earth, eh.

Synonyms and related words:
Christian, bourgeoisie, burgher, champion, choice, chosen, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, cream, elect, elite, exemplary citizen, faithful, fat, flower, galantuomo, gentilhomme, gentleman, good citizen, good man, good neighbor, good woman, honest man, honest woman, laborers, lady, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, man of honor, middle class, middle orders, nonesuch, nonpareil, optimum, ordinary people, paragon, peasantry, pick, pillar of society, plain folks, plain people, prime, prize, proletariat, queen, quintessence, rank and file, real lady, respectable citizen, select, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, straight shooter, superlative, the best, the best ever, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, the tops, the very best, toilers, toiling class, true Christian, true blue, truepenny, trusty, upper middle class, vulgus, woman of honor, working class, working people
  

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