pinch of salt
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pinch of salt (plural pinches of salt)
- A small amount of salt.
- (figuratively) Caution, doubt, consideration.
- Take anything he tells you with a pinch of salt: he's an inveterate liar and mixes truth with his fiction liberally.
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small amount of salt
caution (as in take with a pinch of salt)
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