is the saying take it with a grain of salt or a grain of sand? nAtURe GiRl

The correct idiom is "Take it with a grain of salt". It means to consider something to be not completely true or right.

According to Bloomsbury International, the idiom starts with the idea that most food tastes better with a little bit of salt. Food is tastier and therefore easier to swallow with a grain of salt, so this idiom claims that if someone is telling you something that is probably not entirely true or correct, it is easier to swallow it with a grain of salt than to argue against it.

More recently, the idiom has been modified from a grain of salt to a pinch of salt, and we can now use either grain or pinch in this saying.

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Friday, July 29 2016
Source: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+with+a+grain+of+saltl