Like all official figures in Russia, this should be taken with a large pinch of salt.
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.
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 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.
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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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".
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.
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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