take stock in

take stock in
{v. phr.}, {informal} To have faith in; trust; believe. - Usually used in the negative. * /He took no stock in the idea that women were better cooks than men./ * /They took little or no stock in the boy's story that he had lost the money./ * /Do you take any stock in the gossip about Joan?/

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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