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单词 with a pinch of salt
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with a pinch of salt
d. with a grain of salt [= modern Latin cum grano salis] : (to accept a statement) with a certain amount of reserve. Also in similar phrases, now esp. with a pinch of salt.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > [adverb]
doubtouslyc1350
incertainly1530
doubtinglya1535
unsurely1595
falteringly1611
uncertainly1613
dubitatively1615
with a grain of salt1647
doubtily1654
hesitantly1660
unsatisfiedly1661
doubtfully1664
Pyrrhonically1710
uncertaina1718
dubitatingly1827
undecidedly1856
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rev. vi. 11) This is to be taken with a grain of salt.
1649 E. Sparke in J. Shute Sarah & Hagar To Rdr. sig. bv Read them then, but with such a grain of salt as intimated.
1883 American 6 280 An Extremist,—and we may add more or less salt to his expressions.
1908 Athenæum 1 Aug. 118/1 Our reasons for not accepting the author's pictures of early Ireland without many grains of salt.
1948 F. R. Cowell Cicero & Roman Republic xvi. 243 A more critical spirit slowly developed, so that Cicero and his friends took more than the proverbial pinch of salt before swallowing everything written by these earlier authors.
1949 V. Grove Lang. Bar ii. 29 Even if we accept such a statement with a pinch of salt, it is an undisputable fact that its writer did look upon Latin as a guiding mistress.
1965 M. Shadbolt Among Cinders xxvi. 258 I take what he says with a half-pound of salt, after his review of that play.
1981 J. S. Bratton Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction ii. 41 We must take William Jones's enthusiasm about the eagerness of [tract] readers with a pinch of salt.
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