taken with a grain of salt


to not be entirely trusted, to be skeptical of something

idiomatic expression americans use
taken with a grain of salt-

to consider something to be not completely true or right

i’ve read the article, which i take with a grain of salt.

related vocabulary: hard to swallow

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