with a grain of salt

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. With a little common sense and skepticism. idiomatic,not-comparable
    — I take anything I read on the Internet with a grain of salt.

词源

Calque of Latin cum grānō salis , literally with a grain of salt, figuratively with a bit of common sense (from Pliny’s Pompey’s discovery of an antidote against poison to be taken with a grain of salt).
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