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Unlucky. This arose from Lot’s wife, who looked back towards Sodom and was turned to a pillar of salt (Genesis xix. 26).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.