A microscopic handbag "smaller than a grain of salt" has been sold for $63,750 (£50,000) at auction. Measuring a mere 657 x 222 x 700 micrometers, the bag's design is so tiny that a microscope is ...

My assumption is that my regular readers — and I’m not referring to their bran intake — take everything I write with a grain of salt or perhaps an appropriate adult beverage.

The modern meaning. Per the OED, the first usage of the phrase take it with a grain of salt in its figurative (rather than literal) meaning was recorded in 1647. But how did we get from Pliny’s ...

A microscopic handbag that is “smaller than a grain of salt” has been sold for over $63,000.. The miniscule handbag, made by Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF, was auctioned last week by ...