Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is take someone at his or her word and its meaning is “believe completely what someone has said without questioning“.
Example Sentence: As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump broke decades of precedent (standard/example) by refusing to release his tax forms to the public. He bragged during a presidential debate that year that he was “smart” because he paid no federal taxes and later claimed he wouldn’t personally benefit from the 2017 tax cuts he signed into law that favored people with extreme wealth, asking Americans to simply take him at his word.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article House committee votes to release Trump’s tax returns to the public and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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