People who are getting into a pickle, easily become salty ... "
Bill Maher
Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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Salty
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If someone is being ‘salty,’ it means they are upset, resentful, or bitter, often in a petty or grudging manner. The term has evolved from its literal taste description and is most often used if someone is upset over a minor competitive loss and isn’t able to let go of the bitterness.
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Idioms about pickles are phrases or expressions that use the word pickle to convey a humorous or figurative meaning. Some examples of idioms about pickles are:
To be in a pickle: to be in a difficult or tricky situation.
To get into a pickle: to get into trouble or a mess.
To be a big dill: to be important or influential.
To be pickled: to be drunk or intoxicated.
To have a pickle up one's nose: to be angry or annoyed.
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A pickled cucumber – commonly known as a pickle in the United States and Canada and traditionally a gherkin in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand – is a usually small or miniature cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or other solution and left to ferment. The fermentation process is executed either by immersing the cucumbers in an acidic solution or through souring by lacto-fermentation. Pickled cucumbers are often part of mixed pickles.
Etymology
The term pickle is derived from the Dutch word pekel, meaning brine. In the United States and Canada, the word pickle alone used as a noun refers to a pickled cucumber (other types of pickled vegetables will be described using the adjective "pickled", such as "pickled onion", "pickled beets", etc.). In the UK pickle generally refers to a style of sweet, vinegary chutneys, such as Branston pickle, commonly served with a ploughman's lunch. The term traditionally used in British English to refer to a pickled cucumber, gherkin, is also of Dutch origin, derived from the word gurken or augurken, meaning cucumber.
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What a bunch of pussies!"