at one's word

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It’s so maddening to be taken so literally at one’s word, and to be expected to sit smiling on the top of a pedestal while the world rocks.

It is not infrequently disconcerting to be taken promptly and literally at one's word.

Discussing divorce he claims as essential to manhood the right to bind oneself and to be taken at one's word.

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