Posted by Lou Pilder on February 21, 2005, at 10:10:03
Dr Hsiung,
I am requesting that you write a determination as to the acceptablility or not in relation to the guidlines ofthe forum for the following:
The poster writes,[...Please, please take {anything} "dancingstar" says with a grain of salt....].
I feel that IMO this use if that idiom has the potential to be not acceptable here.
The idiom has an origin going back 200 years or so when salt was thought to have healing properties and also to be an antidote to poisons. Hence, when the idiom was originally used, it had the potential to mean that what the person was saying could be poisonous to you so you should {...take what is said with a grain if salt...].
Lou Pilder
http://www,dr-bob.org/babble/20050217/msga/460541.html
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:461232
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