pinch of salt

English

Noun

pinch of salt (plural pinches of salt)

1. A small amount of salt.
2. (figuratively) Caution, doubt, consideration.

   Take anything he tells you with a pinch of salt, he's an inveterate liar and mixes truth with his fiction liberally.

Synonyms

• grain of salt

Translations

small amount of salt

• Finnish: ripaus suolaa (fi)
• French: pincée de sel (fr) f

• Russian: щепотка соли (ru) (ščepótka sóli) f
• Serbo-Croatian: zrno soli (sh) n

caution

• Finnish: varauksella (fi)
• Icelandic: (with a pinch of salt) með fyrirvara (is)

• Russian: осторожность (ru) (ostoróžnost'), предосторожность (ru) (predostoróžnost'),
• Serbo-Croatian: zrno soli (sh) n

See also

• face value