salt something away

Instead, it will be salted away to ease the way for tax cuts that are to take effect next year and the year after.

Untold fortunes, Western bankers say, have been salted away in foreign bank accounts.

It's salted away where no prying eyes will find it.

However, I have enough salted away to tide me over for a while.

That brings the amount the state has salted away to almost $3 billion.

Plus you probably sold that shipment of crude on the black market and salted away six or seven million dollars in some Swiss account.

On Sunday, a first down likely would have salted the game away for Green Bay.

"Come, let's see what sort of fortune Polygonus has salted away."

A fund was established, the money salted away in carefully disguised accounts abroad.

I hope you have an extra gas bottle salted away for the next cold snap, which could last into the New Year!