See with a grain of salt on Wiktionary
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"Du latin cum grano salis (« avec un grain de sel »), au sens figuré « avec un peu de sens commun »."
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"text": "I’d take anything I read on the internet with a grain of salt.",
"translation": "Je prendrais tout ce que je lis sur internet avec des pincettes."
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"À la légère, (prendre) avec des pincettes, avec précaution, avec recul."
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