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Nitpick: you mean a small grain of salt. "Take it with a grain of salt" basically means "take it in a very small quantity", i.e., don't buy much into it. If y
by discardorama 12y ago
Nitpick: you mean a small grain of salt.
"Take it with a grain of salt" basically means "take it in a very small quantity", i.e., don't buy much into it.
If you say "large grain of salt", you're saying "take more of it", which has the opposite meaning from what you intended.
Sorry. I'll crawl back into my hole now.
- dntrkv 12y agoI'm pretty the parent has the correct use here. "If you say "large grain of salt", you're saying "take more of it", which has the opposite meaning from what you intended." The claim here is not the salt, the salt is the skepticism. Well, that's how I understand it anyway. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/take-with-a-grain-of-salt.html http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/take-with-a-grain-of-salt...