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take someone's word for
Idioms and Phrases
see take someone at his or her word .Example Sentences
But never take someoneās word for it.
We tried to never take someoneās word for something, check their data and check it again.
āYou have to train 10 different contractors remotely, set up administrative work with 10 different companies. Itās much easier to have all the resources and people set up in one location, because then you can go visit them, and you can see for yourself how the company functions instead of having to take someoneās word for it.ā
I have no such pretensions, but I also donāt want to watch technological evolution while imprisoned in a cave, forced to take someoneās word for how itās made and how itās used.
"We definitely don't take someone's word for it," Williams said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Ā© Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageĀ® Idioms Dictionary copyright Ā© 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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