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To view a claim, statement, or rumor with healthy skepticism rather than literal belief.
"You should take internet rumors with a grain of salt until verified by trusted sources."
"His dramatic storytelling is amusing, but I always take his statistics with a grain of salt."
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Draws vivid metaphors from food, culinary preparation, and agricultural harvests ('grain, salt').
Recorded in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia (77 AD), describing an antidote to poison taken "with a grain of salt" (cum grano salis) to help it go down.
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