Quote:
Originally Posted by homoe
"Take With A Grain Of Salt........(or also take with a pinch of salt)
If you take what someone says with a grain of salt, or with a pinch of salt, you have doubts about the truth or accuracy of what they say.
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I dunno.... I guess that's one way it could mean. I always understood it differently.
My dad used this idiom quite frequently. ...but not in the same context. Most often, nearly always, the context centered more upon being the recipient of an unkind gesture or even an mean-spirited gesture. My dad used to say to not take those unkind, mean-spirited actions of others to heart because it primarily is an example of the troubled personality's problematic behavioral issues.