Synonyms for grain of salt
grain of salt

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1. grain of saltnoun

   Synonyms:
   pinch of salt

2. grain of saltnoun

   A bit of common sense and skepticism. Generally used in some form of to take with a grain of salt.

   I'd take anything I read in that paper with a grain of salt.

   Synonyms:
   pinch of salt

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1. Odell Beckham Jr.:

   You take it [with] a grain of salt because it could get to a point in the game — and I could be frustrated, but really just wanting to pump everybody up. And they see something on the sideline and it's like, ‘Oh, there he is. There's the old, Odell.’ You know what I mean? Like that's just the way that the world works. It doesn't really make sense, but that's what they do. So, I think winning cures everything. That might be the answer. I think winning cures it all.

2. Randall Kroszner:

   We have to take anything positive there with a grain of salt.

3. Ron Johnson:

   I'm not aware of every piece of information our committee has gathered. We're encouraging people to send us information, but then we fully vet it, we take everything with a grain of salt we get from Ukraine. I think you have to.

4. Steve Hall:

   I think the Ukrainians, to put it mildly, are taking this with a large grain of salt. I can't imagine that anybody, really, at this point, believes much of anything that Russia says.

5. Primo Levi:

   In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.