take sth with a pinch of salt
UK US take sth with a grain of saltto not completely believe something that you are told, because you think it is unlikely to be true:
You have to take everything she says with a pinch of salt, because she tends to exaggerate.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not believing
- are my eyes deceiving me? idiom
- as if! idiom
- authority
- believe
- believe sth when you see it idiom
- denial
- have something on good authority idiom
- I'll eat my hat idiom
- iconoclastic
- in your dreams! idiom
- incredulous
- joke
- Marines
- quarrel with sth
- salt
- satisfied
- self-deception
- since when idiom
- tell me another one! idiom
- worship
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