at one's word
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Discussing divorce he claims as essential to manhood the right to bind oneself and to be taken at one's word.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
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.
From A Question of Marriage by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
It is not infrequently disconcerting to be taken promptly and literally at one's word.
From From the Car Behind by Flagg, James Montgomery
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