![]() Your informal survey was an interesting exercise in uncovering the extent to which different individuals may understand the same expression differently. My question is: Can the phrase "take it with a grain of salt" have four different ways to get to the same meaning? Pliny the Elder recommended that a grain of salt was to be used as an antidote for poison. ![]() In Latin the word for salt is the same as the word for wisdom, meaning that the current issue to be viewed through a lens of your life experience. Some people add a grain of salt to coffee to reduce the perception of bitterness. So if you balance the current issue on one side of some scales, and a grain of salt on the either, you get a feeling for how important this issue is in the big picture I've asked several people around the office what they understand this to mean - and each person got to this answer via a different means:Ī grain of salt doesn't weigh very much.
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