He removed the tape himself this time, as if throwing salt in the wound.

No one in the Young household so much as touched wood or threw salt over their shoulder.

It would have made better sense to heal the wounds that the war had opened than to throw salt into them.

"So he threw salt and maybe some charm at the creature, then what?"

"Are you saying he threw salt at this thing?"

Still, throwing salt on a powerful rabbi will not grow flowers.

When she threw salt in your eyes, I could have killed her.

Griffin surprised himself by asking, "Should we be throwing salt at them?"

"Someone threw salt on this part of the ice," he announced slowly.

It would have been like throwing salt on a wound.