keep one's word

Idioms  

1. Honor one's promises, as in You can count on Richard; he'll keep his word. This expression employs word in the sense of “a promise,” a usage dating from the late 1500s. For an antonym, see go back on.

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keep one's word

If you have promised things to other people—— My father always said that one must keep one's word.'

From Vestigia Vol. II. by George Fleming

But the good faith, inculcated by sound reason and religion, is not hereby made void; for neither reason nor Scripture teaches one to keep one's word in every case.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Joseph Ratner

Not to keep one's word, to play a hopeless part in the dark, to leap when the numma wapew is over the eyes and you are blind—that takes a man.

From God's Country—And the Woman by James Oliver Curwood

And then one has to keep one's word of honour.

From Man and Maid by Elinor Glyn

Still, she had promised, and one should keep one’s word unless the keeping becomes impossible.

From The Late Tenant by Louis Tracy