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Pinch Salt Exaggerate Distort Things Believed Unquestioningly Grain

Word Pinch of salt
Description If what someone says should be taken with a pinch of salt, then they exaggerate and distort things, so what they say shouldn't be believed unquestioningly. (‘With a grain of salt' is an alternative.)

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