Given these figures, today's saintly rhetoric needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
So take the polls with a pinch of salt and a double margarita.
Do you take Wikipedia at face value, or with a pinch of salt?
Still, wise investors will take future ratings with a pinch of salt, as most hedge funds have long done.
But this should be taken with a pinch of salt, since any deal is likely to be hedged with exceptions.
But this claim should be taken with a pinch of salt they will not start closing anything until 2003 at the earliest.
Professor McKenna says evidence is emerging that speeders tend also to take many of society's other rules with a pinch of salt.
Chinese leaders themselves sometimes seem to take neican reports, produced as they are by the party's own faithful, with a pinch of salt.
However, hotelier and member of Beddgelert Tourist Association in north Wales, Rae Duffield said the guide should be taken "with a pinch of salt".
Mash an avocado with a pinch of salt and a drizzle of oil, and you'll find it an ideal condiment and flavor conduit for nearly any meal.
Some of these strictures need a pinch of salt.
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"Take the troika's forecasts of Greek GDP with a hefty pinch of salt, because the economy is in free fall, " said Simon Tilford, an economist at the Centre for European Reform in London.
Of course, take any of these patent applications with a generous pinch of salt -- we haven't seen an Apple stylus yet, for example -- but perhaps this is the reason Apple bought fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec back in July.
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Like all official figures in Russia, this should be taken with a large pinch of salt.
The Big Mac numbers should be taken with a generous pinch of salt.
Bristol mayor George Ferguson has said the report's job growth figures "should be taken with a slight pinch of salt".
But it does suggest that, especially in today's febrile market, all promises should be taken with a large pinch of salt.
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Ben Yearsley, investment manager at independent financial advisers Hargreaves Lansdown, argues that professionals are increasingly taking analysts reports with a hefty pinch of salt.
Mr McNealy's audience took that with a generous pinch of salt.
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