Japanese idiom equivalent to "take with a grain of salt"


Is there a Japanese idiom equivalent to "take with a grain of salt"?

In other words, an idiom which means "don't accept this information as
completely true or the complete truth".




This may be close to that phrase:

>
> [話{はなし}半{はん}分{ぶん}](http://eow.alc.co.jp/%E8%A9%B1%E5%8D%8A%E5%88%86/UTF-8/)に聞く

`話半分` denotes where roughly half of what is said is a truth, and half is a
falsehood or exaggeration [according to
Daijirin](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E8%A9%B1%E5%8D%8A%E5%88%86&dtype=0&dname=0ss&stype=0).

Another similar phrase may be
[`割り引いて聞く`](http://eow.alc.co.jp/%E5%89%B2%E3%82%8A%E5%BC%95%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6%E8%81%9E%E3%81%8F/UTF-8/),
which means something similar to "discount some of what somebody says".

See also [Space ALC](http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=take%20grain%20salt) for
more expressions.




This may be close to that phrase:

>
> [話{はなし}半{はん}分{ぶん}](http://eow.alc.co.jp/%E8%A9%B1%E5%8D%8A%E5%88%86/UTF-8/)に聞く

`話半分` denotes where roughly half of what is said is a truth, and half is a
falsehood or exaggeration [according to
Daijirin](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E8%A9%B1%E5%8D%8A%E5%88%86&dtype=0&dname=0ss&stype=0).

Another similar phrase may be
[`割り引いて聞く`](http://eow.alc.co.jp/%E5%89%B2%E3%82%8A%E5%BC%95%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6%E8%81%9E%E3%81%8F/UTF-8/),
which means something similar to "discount some of what somebody says".

See also [Space ALC](http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=take%20grain%20salt) for
more expressions.

