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Anne숑 · 동아이 [ 2과 ] 본문5

Take what she says with a grain of salt.

 

Meaning: Don't believe everything she says.

Story Behind It: 

  Long, long ago,  there lived a king who feared being poisoned by his enemies. So, he created a recipe for a remedy against poison.   His recipe contained seventy-two ingredients, including leaves of trees and nuts. In the last line of his recipe, he wrote with a grain of salt.  This line became very famous since the grain of salt was the deciding ingredient in protecting against being poisoned.  Later, the expression take something with a grain of salt came to have the meaning that a little bit of doubt can help protect against being poisoned by inaccurate or misleading information.

 

 

 

 

A:  I believe everything she says.

B:  You should take what she says with a grain of salt.