of one's word
(Redirected from man of his word)
English[edit]
Prepositional phrase[edit]
- That keeps promises and tells the truth.
- 1995, Mukul Kesavan, Looking Through Glass, →ISBN, page 1:
- She never needed to show them to us — we knew, just as the adults did, that Dadi was a woman of her word.
- 2012, Carolyn Robinson Sommers, Betrayed by Destiny, →ISBN, page 143:
- Dean is a great guy and is always helping someone. He is a man of his word, very respectable, and highly intelligent. But he is not the kind of man you would want to cross if you know what I mean.
Usage notes[edit]
The phrase is only used immediately following a common noun (usually man, woman or person), which then cannot have a definite determiner such as the or this.
Translations[edit]
that keeps promises and tells the truth
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