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Meaning: (idiomatic)With a grain of salt; with a bit ofcommon senseandskepticism.1817, “Observations on Ill Health, Arising from Indigestion”, inThe Gentleman's magazine,Volume 87, Part 1,p420:This observation, takencum grano salis, applies more or less to all who are daily exposed to the temptations of a superfluous table.1861"Imputation,"The Danville quarterly review,Volume 3 (September, 1861), Richard H. Collins,p403The claim of Dr. Hodge that our standards sustain the view which he advocates, must be takencum grano salis.1998, Joseph Needham, Christoph Harbsmeier,Science and civilisation in China, Cambridge University Press,page142:Perhaps the ascription of grammatical structure to Classical Chinese sentences must even more often be takencum grano salis, with a pinch of salt.
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