OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 45711

worth one's salt

/ˈwɜːθ wʌnz ˈsɒlt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acorde a su fama • digno de su sal • valedero / merecedor de su salario
Adept or competent, especially at one's occupation.
Any doctor worth their salt should be able to correctly diagnose the illness.
Everyone who is worth his salt has his enemies, who must be beaten, be they evil thoughts and habits in himself, or spiritual wickedness in high places, or Russians, or Border-ruff…
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