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with a grain of salt 

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When qualifying advice: For example your mother is always cold and thinks that you will be too. Therefore she always tells you to take a jacket with you. Perhaps she gets cold easily and you do not. If you want to communicate this different subjective preference, use this phrase.
Take your mother's advice to wear a coat "with a grain of salt"
with a grain of salt by mthomas1776 October 27, 2007
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a grain of salt

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Definition: To not completely believe what someone tells you, because you know that they do not always tell the truth.
You must take Mr.Wong's statements with a grain of salt, he often exaggerates.

Take what you see on the news with a grain of salt.
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