with a grain of salt

Meaning to take something lightly, especially with advice. To be skeptical.

Take a novice's advice with a grain of salt.

Anything free should be taken with a grain of salt (there's no such thing as a free lunch)

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a grain of salt

Not to be taken literally, or to be taken with caution or extra common sense.

Etymology is from the Latin phrase "cum grano salis" (with a grain of salt), and also the Italian phrase "avere sale in zucca" (to have salt in your pumpkin (head)). In Italy to have salt in your head means to have intelligence or reasoning abilities.

Do not accept promises from your enemy without a grain of salt.

Use a grain of salt when buying cheap electronics from the flea market.

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pepper grains

Something that appears in type 4 hair (typically African-American hair) when it is not combed/brushed often.

The shorter and more common version is 'peps'.

You have pepper grains/peps in your hair.

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grain grippa

Old person, usually of grandfather age defined by an ability to nap through nearly any life situation. The term was given to describe the iron grasp such a 'grain grippa' has to their wooden rocking chair during such siesta.

Hit 'em over the head with a beer can or turn up the hit list as loud as you want, that grain grippa ain't gonna wake up for nobody.

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Making it Grain

When an amish pretends to have money by sliding his hands in the motion in which people "make it rain" for strippers

Amish Guy 1: hey, look man, im making it grain
Civilian Guy 2: wow, maybe you should get a real life and make real money fly through the air
(Amish guy 1 runs away to his adobe house with a sack of grain blowing thru the wind)

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Against the Grain

Against what is normal

Perverse

Anomalic

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with a grain of pepper

Taking shit seriously.

Yo. I mean it with a grain of pepper

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