take sb's word for it
also take sb at their wordB2 to believe that what someone says is true:
He said he'd give me a job and I just took him at his word.
If he says there's $500 in the envelope, then I'll take his word for it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Believing
- article of faith
- ascribe sth to sb
- belief
- believe
- believe in sth
- credit
- evidently
- feel
- feel it in your bones idiom
- give sb the benefit of the doubt idiom
- gospel
- incline to/towards sth
- see sth in sb/sth
- seeing is believing idiom
- self-delusion
- stock
- swear by sth
- take sth as read idiom
- under
- word
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