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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Google counts on Oct 12, 2006
2,350,000 “with a grain of salt”
46 “with a gram of salt”
The generally accepted idiom is to “take something with a grain of salt.” Although there is some similarity in sound between “grain” and “gram,” one has to wonder whether the visual similarity of the words is at play as well. That is, do the letters “in” blur together enough for one to occasionally read “m”? After all, “gram”—as a small amount—works as well as “grain” in this context.
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Poynter Online – Health News That’s UnhealthyBut if you examine some of the evening newscasts’ medical stories, you may want to start taking them with a gram of salt. Why the skepticism? ...
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Protection plus – spring baseball training Sporting News, The …On a game-by-game basis, Bag-well takes the overall value of protection with a gram of salt, but he acknowledges that it does have an important place in the …
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Dancing, by Mrs. Lilly Grove, FRGS, and other writers, with …These authors, besides, have not troubled themselves to be over-accurate, and, therefore, must be taken with a gram of salt. In the ‘History’ of Diodorus of …
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Amazon.com: Making an Archtop Guitar: Books: Robert BenedettoTherefore, the reader is advised to take Benedetto’s pronouncements with a gram of salt and use his guide to begin this pursuit, keeping in mind that the …
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