Eat salt with (someone) British verb phrase
If a person "eats someone's salt", he or she stays at someone's house.
I thank you so much for letting me eat salt with you the whole week when my house was under refurbishment.
We will have an exchange student eating salt with us.
Try to avoid to change something because doing something else could make things worse
If a person "eats someone's salt", he or she stays at someone's house.
1. To start a business
2. To stay in a place longer than expected, especially in an unwanted way
To be in someone's home.
The verb "eat" must be conjugated according to its tense.
The origin of this phrase is not clear.