Do you encourage these sort of salt-of-the-earth kind of moments?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008] Reference

And if anybody knows salt-of-the-earth working folks it's Karl Rove!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama-McGovern-Adlai-Stevenson Reading List] Reference

If so, then she's so salt-of-the-earth refreshing. archimedesncar ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah in 2012! - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference

Common, every day, salt-of-the-earth folk are usually the ones to ask.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiction Writing: Research is Just a Road Trip] Reference

My wife's parents are salt-of-the-earth Taiwanese of their generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

He is a salt-of-the-earth farmer who would serve agriculture well, U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salazar Moves to Top of List as Secretary of Agriculture?] Reference

Like that salt-of-the-earth old salt , Popeye, I just loves my spinach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soup of the Evening] Reference

Their leaders are virtually all salt-of-the-earth men of humble origins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan's corrosive inequality] Reference

He was more a salt-of-the-earth type, and one of the best friends I ever had.    From Wordnik.com.  [quote o’ the day: but what about Newfoundland? « raincoaster] Reference

Farmers are seen as a "hard-working, salt-of-the-earth, core part of our culture.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Farm Lobby Beats Back] Reference

These are really salt-of-the-earth people, and that's the jury that we're seeing here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 9, 2005] Reference

| Reply | Permalink his alleged inability to understand salt-of-the-earth working folks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama-McGovern-Adlai-Stevenson Reading List] Reference

I have a friend who is a retired truck driver and handyman, a real salt-of-the-earth guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reflections on the Birth] Reference

She wishes his critics knew him the way she does — a gentle, sweet, salt-of-the-earth guy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stomping Through A Medical Minefield] Reference

These are salt-of-the-earth folks, with families, mortgages and concerns just like all of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drop the conspiracy theories. | RedState] Reference

Not to say anything against Roy or Smith or Marquez, but this is hardly salt-of-the-earth fare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Hating Salman Rushdie] Reference

Unimpressed with money, resources, and fancy toys, salt-of-the-earth investors see through the BS.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Candidates Were Stocks] Reference

He has a working-class, salt-of-the-earth manner about him, too, usually warm, occasionally gruff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Net's Master Data-miner] Reference

Why does he need to waste our time telling us what a salt-of-the-earth blue collar background he has?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Russert Plays The "I'm Blue Collar" Card] Reference

Here you got your decent working-class people, honest as the day is long, real salt-of-the-earth types.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dance at the Slaughterhouse.html]

And we didn't sing for those granular salt-of-the-earth types sprung up all around us like sour mushrooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [CfK] Reference

One is Fox's honest, salt-of-the-earth, blue-collar father (played by the actor's real life father, Martin).    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review] Reference

The documentary-style ads feature local salt-of-the-earth types opening up about why they're supporting Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: Zapping Errors Between Voter and Vote] Reference

Today, he draws parallels between faux memoirist James Frey and faux salt-of-the-earth, regular guy Sam Alito.    From Wordnik.com.  [On truthiness, propaganda, and the rise of fascism] Reference

In brief, Collier and his wife are your traditional, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth, conservative southerners.    From Wordnik.com.  [D. Brad Wright: Bob Collier is the New Joe the Plumber] Reference

Players from the city's two clubs are described by bar staff as "really lovely people, salt-of-the-earth types".    From Wordnik.com.  ['Everyone wants a footballer' at Manchester's top celebrity haunt] Reference

And it whams straight into salt-of-the-earth sentimentalities: the less heart the better is a general rule here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men Should Weep; Blasted; When We Are Married] Reference

He's doing it to tap into the beloved American movie myth of the salt-of-the-earth outsider who ends up in power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marty Kaplan: The Hollywood Candidate Is Not Obama] Reference

She supposed it said something about his character if he'd earned the support of a salt-of-the-earth type like Gert.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Baby For Emily]

He is two people, he is salt-of-the-earth family man and he is also totally free and always has love'lessons, always.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willie]

Thanks to Bill @ Planet Peschel who plans to return to his salt-of-the-earth book's worth, soon, sans "kreeping krud.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Knight on the Town] Reference

Dr. SHALESH KAUSHAL (Ophthalmologist, University of Massachusetts): Incredibly sweet families - salt-of-the-earth people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Offshore Stem Cell Clinics Sell Hope, Not Science] Reference

Maestro Zalce led a remarkable life, but what was even more remarkable was his humble, salt-of-the-earth approach to fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfredo Zalce died yesterday afternoon] Reference

I'll strip them of everything they know, and re-introduce them as boardroom killers, in an earthy salt-of-the-earth kinda way.    From Wordnik.com.  [amishboy Diary Entry] Reference

These are all good, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth people who simply want government out of their lives as every American should.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservative's Blind Support of Our Troops, Adoration of Glenn Beck and Their Unintended Defense of the Big Lie] Reference

And I particularly loved Charlie's condescending assertion to his salt-of-the-earth blue-collar dad - 'It's called pasta now, Dad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes and Villains 2 - The Acadomy Awards] Reference

According to wikipedia, Cannonball is "a salt-of-the-earth, honest, well-mannered and responsible young man, is a natural leader.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dart Adams presents Livications: DallasPenn.com] Reference

Yes, with that pedigree, he sure sounds like a middle-American, salt-of-the-earth, down on the farm, non-urban regular guy, doesn't he?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["American Prayer" of the damned.] Reference

Levi's says it is has no intention to stray too far from its salt-of-the-earth roots as the uniform of choice for 19th century laborers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Levi's Shoots for the High-End Hipster] Reference

ABC: It's All Relative 8:30 - TP: Bobby's a bartender - the only son of gregarious, salt-of-the-earth Irish Catholic parents from Boston.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pen-Elayne on the Web] Reference