Word.ws English Dictionary

putting salt on someone's tail

putting salt on someone's tail is the present participle and gerund of put salt on someone's tail.

Meaning of put salt on someone's tail

Verb

put salt on someone's tail (third-person singular simple present puts salt on someone's tail, present participle putting salt on someone's tail, simple past and past participle put salt on someone's tail)

  1. To capture or pin down someone.
    • This accurately describes the many biographers who have tried and failed to get close enough to Newman to put salt on his tail.2013, Edward Short, Newman and his Family, page 322

Questions about putting salt on someone's tail

What is putting salt on someone's tail the present participle and gerund of?
Putting salt on someone's tail is the present participle and gerund of put salt on someone's tail.

Words near putting salt on someone's tail in the dictionary

  1. putting over
  2. putting paid to
  3. putting past
  4. putting pen to paper
  5. putting round
  6. putting salt on someone's tail
  7. putting some timber on
  8. putting someone hip
  9. putting someone in a box
  10. putting someone in a false position
  11. putting someone in hospital

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: putting salt on someone's tail (page history and authors); put salt on someone's tail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “putting salt on someone's tail.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/putting_salt_on_someone%27s_tail. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.