pinch of salt

Speech parts

1. pinch of salt - Noun

2. pinch of salt - Phrase

Meaning

A small amount of salt.

(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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

skepticism incredulity scepticism pyrrhonism scepsis chariness dubitation misbelief distrustfulness questionability grain of salt

Antonyms

belief

Examples

Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely. Samuel Butler (novelist)

Words in the phrase

pinch of salt

Close letter words and terms

pinch hit pinch hit for pinch hitter pinch of snuff pinch of the game pinch off