with a grain of salt

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Calque of Latin cum grānō salis , literally with a grain of salt, figuratively with a bit of common sense (from Pliny’s Pompey’s discovery of an antidote against poison to be taken with a grain of salt).

39 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: reserves — with common sense and skepticism
• Catalan: cautela — with common sense and skepticism
• Catalan: escepticisme — with common sense and skepticism
• Chinese Mandarin: 持懷疑態度 /持怀疑态度 (chí huáiyí tàidù) — with common sense and skepticism
• Czech: rezerva — with common sense and skepticism
• Danish: med et gran salt — with common sense and skepticism
• Dutch: met een korreltje zout — with common sense and skepticism
• Finnish: varauksin — with common sense and skepticism
• Finnish: varauksellisesti — with common sense and skepticism
• Finnish: varauksella — with common sense and skepticism
• Finnish: varovasti — with common sense and skepticism
• French: avec des pincettes — with common sense and skepticism
• German: mit einem Körnchen Salz — with common sense and skepticism
• Hebrew: עם קמצוץ מלח ('Im kamtsuts melah) — with common sense and skepticism
• Hebrew: בערבון מוגבל — with common sense and skepticism
• Hebrew: בהסתייגות מסוימת — with common sense and skepticism
• Hungarian: fenntartással — with common sense and skepticism
• Icelandic: með saltkorni (taka e-u með saltkorni) — with common sense and skepticism
• Italian: col sale in zucca — with common sense and skepticism
• Italian: con un po' di sale in zucca — with common sense and skepticism
• Japanese: 話半分 (hanashihanbun) — with common sense and skepticism
• Latin: cum grano salis — with common sense and skepticism
• Norwegian Bokmål: med en klype salt — with common sense and skepticism
• Norwegian Nynorsk: med ei klype salt — with common sense and skepticism
• Polish: z przymrużeniem oka — with common sense and skepticism
• Portuguese: cum grano salis — with common sense and skepticism
• Russian: скепти́чески (skeptíčeski) — with common sense and skepticism
• Russian: недове́рчиво (nedovérčivo) — with common sense and skepticism
• Spanish: coger con pinzas — with common sense and skepticism
• Spanish: tomar con pinzas — with common sense and skepticism
• Spanish: tomar con reservas — with common sense and skepticism
• Spanish: creer la mitad — with common sense and skepticism
• Spanish: con un grano de sal — with common sense and skepticism
• Spanish: escuchar con reservas — with common sense and skepticism
• Spanish: con escepticismo — with common sense and skepticism
• Spanish: escépticamente — with common sense and skepticism
• Spanish: ser escéptico con — with common sense and skepticism
• Swedish: med en nypa salt — with common sense and skepticism
• Ukrainian: з сумнівом одна баба казала (z sumnivom) — with common sense and skepticism