take something with a grain of salt

 

take something with a grain of salt

to consider something to be not completely true or right I've read the article, which I take with a grain of salt.

Related vocabulary: hard to swallow

Etymology: based on the idea that food tastes better and is easier to swallow if you add a little salt

See also: grain, salt, take

Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006. Reproduced with permission.

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Jongho Kim