with a grain of salt

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)With a littlecommon senseandskepticism.I take anything I read on the Internetwith a grain of salt.2008, John Douglas, Johnny Dodd,Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer, John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN:In it, police laid out list of biographical factoids about BTK and urged residents to read itwith a grain of salt. Releasing a list of his “claims,” they reasoned, might allow someone, somewhere to make a connection that police couldn't hope to.

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