今日のフレーズです!
“Take (something) with a grain of salt”
(something )を当てにしない、
(something )を真に受けない
Salt is used to add flavor to food.
Each tiny piece of salt is a grain.
If you “take something with a grain of salt,”
You listen to something
with suspicion and doubt.
You do not immediately accept it as true.
Some words experts say
this expression comes
from a different salt-related phrase
written nearly 2,000 years ago
by the Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder.
英語を通じて
もっと人生を充実させたい方の
お役に立てれば嬉しいです。
老いも若きも、初心者も上級者も (^ ^)
今日も大切な1日、
せっかくだから思いっきり、英語も楽しんじゃおう!
今後とも、よろしくお願い申し上げます。