- give one's word
- {v. phr.} To seriously promise. * /"You gave me your word you would marry me," Mary bitterly complained, "but you broke your word."/
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
give one's word
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give one's word — {v. phr.} To seriously promise. * / You gave me your word you would marry me, Mary bitterly complained, but you broke your word. / … Dictionary of American idioms
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