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