Salt the mine American British verb phrase
To spread false information about something in order to artificially raise its worth
Salting the mine with the construction project is a good way to sell our land at a high price.
Some improper entrepreneurs salted the mine with magic functions of ingredients to lure a lot of people come to buy medicines.
The verb "salt" should be conjugated according to its tense.
Extremely ugly; unlovely; unattractive
I hate frogs because they’re as ugly as sin.