pinch of salt

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pinch of salt (plural pinches of salt)

  1. A small amount of salt.
  2. (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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