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grain of salt

A metaphor used when information or advice should not be taken so seriously.
Peter: I read somewhere that we're going to war with North Korea!!
Mom: Where did you hear that from?
Peter: Someone commented on my Facebook post
Mom: It was probably sarcasm that you clearly missed on. There is definitely tension between the US and North Korea but not enough to go into War over. Take what they said with a grain of salt.
grain of salt by PLPK Fire April 27, 2017
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A term commonly used in the IT industry to describe an outage of a service being caused by the substandard work of a sysadmin.
*Multiple services light up the monitoring board*

"OH FFS who grained it"
grained by dfg1r07 March 22, 2017

Take it with a grain of salt

regard something as exaggerated; believe only part of something.

Spinsta’-gram 

Spinsta’-gram is an amazing App featuring spinsters doing everyday activities like watching Hallmark movies, crafting, drinking tea and sewing outfits for their pets.
“Hey google, remind me again how to tweet this snapshot onto the Spinsta’-gram. Ruth & Anne wanted to see the afghan I’m making for the spring raffle”
Spinsta’-gram by Mandi Harmony December 18, 2020

Obtain the Grain 

just a way for one, ie. me, to flex on yall with their immaculate use of the english language by speaking as the ones important to society do, its the competent way of saying "lets get that bread"
Obtain the Grain by awholemess January 9, 2019

take with a grain of salt

To take a statement with 'a grain of salt' or 'a pinch of salt' means to accept it but to maintain a degree of skepticism about its truth.
The idea comes from the fact that food is more easily swallowed if taken with a small amount of salt. (take with a grain of salt)