pinch of salt

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

pinch of salt (plural pinches of salt)

1. A small amount of salt.
2. (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.

Synonyms

• grain of salt

Translations

small amount of salt

• Czech: špetka soli f
• Dutch: snufje zout
• Finnish: ripaus suolaa, suolaripaus
• French: pincée de sel f
• Hungarian: egy csipetnyi só
• Irish: gráinnín salainn m, pinsín salainn m
• Italian: pizzico di sale
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klype m or f salt

  Nynorsk: klype f salt

• Russian: щепо́тка со́ли f (ščepótka sóli)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zȑno soli n

• Ukrainian: щі́пка со́лі f (ščípka sóli)

caution (as in take with a pinch of salt)

• Dutch: korreltje zout
• Finnish: varauksella (fi)
• French: pincettes (fr) f pl
• Hungarian: fenntartás (hu)
• Icelandic: (with a pinch of salt) með fyrirvara (is)
• Italian: con le pinze, cautela (it), dubbio (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klype m or f salt

  Nynorsk: klype f salt

• Russian: осторо́жность (ru) (ostoróžnostʹ), предосторо́жность (ru) (predostoróžnostʹ),
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zȑno soli n

• Swedish: nypa salt c

See also

• face value