"take someone's word for it" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-take someone's word for it.ogg Forms: takes someone's word for it [present, singular, third-person], taking someone's word for it [participle, present], took someone's word for it [past], taken someone's word for it [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> someone's word for it}} take someone's word for it (third-person singular simple present takes someone's word for it, present participle taking someone's word for it, simple past took someone's word for it, past participle taken someone's word for it)
  1. (idiomatic) To believe what someone claims, especially without checking or verifying for oneself. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: take someone at their word, take it from me, take to the bank, word is bond, word of honor, nullius in verba Translations (to believe what someone claims): agafar pel mot (Catalan), iemand op zijn woord geloven (Dutch), croire sur parole (French), jemanden beim Wort nehmen (German), szaván fog (Hungarian), creid ó duine éigin (Irish), credere sulla parola (Italian), wierzyć na słowo [imperfective] (Polish), uwierzyć na słowo [perfective] (Polish), пове́рить на́ слово (povéritʹ ná slovo) [perfective] (Russian), tomar la palabra (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "word": "jemanden beim Wort nehmen"
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      "sense": "to believe what someone claims",
      "word": "creid ó duine éigin"
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      "word": "credere sulla parola"
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