Japanese idiom equivalent to "take with a grain of salt" Is there a Japanese idiom equivalent to "take with a grain of salt"? In other words, an idiom which means "don't accept this information as completely true or the complete truth".

This may be close to that phrase:

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`` denotes where roughly half of what is said is a truth, and half is a falsehood or exaggeration according to Daijirin.

Another similar phrase may be ``, which means something similar to "discount some of what somebody says".

See also Space ALC for more expressions.