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Idioms and Phrases

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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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