英语单词“take something with a grain of salt”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 take something with a grain of salt 释义

takesomethingwith a grain of salt

idiomUS(UKtakesomethingwith a pinch of salt)to notcompletelybelievesomething that you are told, because youthinkit isunlikelyto betrue:You have to take everything she says with agrainofsalt, because shetendstoexaggerate.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not believing

• (that's) a likely story!idiom
• anti-science
• anti-scientific
• are my eyes deceiving me?idiom
• as if!idiom
• authority
• foot
• iconoclasm
• iconoclastic
• in your dreams!idiom
• incredulity
• incredulous
• joke
• pass
• salt
• since whenidiom
• takesomethingwith a pinch of saltidiom
• tell me another one!idiom
• tell that/it to the Marines!idiom
• yeah

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(Definition oftake something with a grain of saltfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)

take something with a grain of salt| American Dictionary

takesomethingwith a grain of salt

idiomtounderstandthat something islikelyto beuntrueorincorrect:I’veseenthearticle, which I take with agrainofsalt.(Definition oftake something with a grain of saltfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/take-with-a-grain-of-salt##