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That is why some chocolate chip cookie recipes call for a pinch of salt to balance the bitterness of the dark chocolate.

If you don’t have a mirror, other reflective surfaces—such as a stainless-steel plate or, to a lesser extent, the screen of your smartphone or handheld GPS device—can be used in a pinch.

Not exactly the most high-tech or most ideal method, but it should hopefully work in a pinch.

Salt your spiritSalting a key cocktail component, such as a liqueur, is certainly more labor-intensive than using a saline solution or adding a pinch of salt, but the technique both reimagines the ingredient and allows for more control when mixing.

Madam Wetherill was very generous with her outfit, though she began to feel the pinch of straitened means.

People that you and I will never know, will know of this, and it will help them--when their pinch comes.

The Seigneur took a pinch of snuff, and the Cure, whose mind was benevolent, listened with the gravest interest.

He had taken a leaf of the raw tobacco and adding a pinch for filler was trying to twist the spill.

But I tell thee again, thy father shall not portion an idler like thyself and pinch his trade.

Take a pinch of sulphur in the mouth and drink water behind it to cleanse the blood.