Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “take something at face value” and its meaning is “to accept or believe something as someone says without thinking whether it is true or not”.
Example Sentence: The brazen partisanship of central agencies that target the critics of the government is undermining the political system. The claim that all this is being done for fighting corruption and ensuring transparency cannot be taken at face value. All stakeholders must be accountable in a democracy, and the ruling party more so. When accountability is invoked for scuttling the political activity of the Opposition, that can only bode ill for democracy.
This phrase is present in Scuttling opposition: On Income-Tax department action against the Congress and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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