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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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• grain of salt

Translations

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Czech: špetka soli f Dutch: snufje zout Finnish: ripaus suolaa, suolaripaus French: pincée de sel f Hungarian: egy csipetnyi só Irish: gráinnín salainn m, pinsín salainn m Italian: pizzico di sale Norwegian: Bokmål: klype m or f salt Nynorsk: klype f salt Russian: щепо́тка со́ли f (ščepótka sóli) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: zȑno soli n Spanish: una pizca de sal Ukrainian: щі́пка со́лі f (ščípka sóli)

caution (as in take with a pinch of salt)

Czech: s rezervou f Dutch: korreltje zout Finnish: varauksella (fi) French: pincettes (fr) f pl Hungarian: fenntartás (hu) Icelandic: (with a pinch of salt) með fyrirvara (is) Italian: con le pinze, cautela (it), dubbio (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: klype salt (no) Nynorsk: klype salt Russian: осторо́жность (ru) (ostoróžnostʹ), предосторо́жность (ru) (predostoróžnostʹ), Serbo-Croatian: Roman: zȑno soli n Swedish: nypa salt c

See also

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• face value

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