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How to use grain of salt in a sentence

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Concerns about reliability and validity creep in, and I offer a word to the wise to take their results with a grain of salt.
Many personnel believe that no matter what they have to say, it will be taken with a grain of salt.
Yes, he did steal 51 bases, but this has to be taken with a grain of salt considering the 36 times he was thrown out.
I'm on the other side of the fence, and I've been critical of some of you lately, so I'll understand if you take my advice with a grain of salt.
That is the thing about overall stats like this, you have to take them with a grain of salt.
An exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art took the word primitive with a grain of salt, as indicated by the scare quotes around it in the title.
Anything I'd have to say would be a guess, so take the following with a grain of salt.
It does mean that proferred numbers be taken with a grain of salt as a lagniappe, perhaps, rather than a justification.
Most people who know Helen Thomas take the news of her retirement with a grain of salt.
So I just think we have to take those dire predictions, Mr. Chairman, with a grain of salt.
We know that Senator Dorgan of course is criticizing but we will take that with a grain of salt.
Mr. Speaker, I have learned to take with a grain of salt what opposition politicians say about trade agreements during election campaigns.
One of the advantages of some grey hair is that you learn to take long-range predications with a grain of salt.
My point here is that the reports of escapees and captures must be taken with a very large grain of salt.
One has to take this category with a grain of salt, of course, because not all refugee flows are associated with instability.
I haven't heard from the canoeists in a year, so I just take a your concerns with a bit of a grain of salt.
I would have to take what the Bloc says with a grain of salt when it comes to justice issues.
One part per trillion is one grain of salt dissolved in an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
By looking closely at a grain of salt, one can see cubes of different sizes.
Luckily, the affable Bavarian took the advice with a grain of salt.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But when I know that it was by your special request, of course I must take his eulogy with a grain of salt.
The Salic law is that you must take everything with a grain of salt.
They're quite the nicest fellows in the world, and what you have to tell them is a mere microbe to the camels I've made them swallow without a grain of salt.
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