with a grain of salt
Meaning
Adverb
- With a little common sense and skepticism.
Origin
- , literally with a grain of salt, figuratively with a bit of common sense (from Pliny’s Pompey’s discovery of an antidote against poison to be taken with a grain of salt).
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