take at face value

take (someone or something) at face value

To accept or trust someone or something based only on an initial or superficial presentation, without taking further proof, verification, or investigation into account. I've learned never to take corporate PR statements at face value. It's hard to take Jeff at face value when he's been caught lying in the past.

take someone or something at face value

to accept someone or something just as it appears; to believe that the way things appear is the way they really are. He means what he says. You have to take him at face value. I take everything he says at face value.

take something at face value

to accept something exactly the way it appears to be. I don't know whether I can take her story at face value, but I will assume that she is not lying. The committee took the report at face value and approved the suggested changes.

take somebody/something at face ˈvalue

accept that somebody/something is exactly as they/it first appears: You can’t take everything she says at face value. A diplomat learns not to take everything at face value.

See also: face, somebody, something, take, value

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

take at face value, to

To accept something or someone at its apparent worth. The transfer of face value from monetary currency to other matters took place in the nineteenth century. “He must take advertisements of publishers at their face value and regard them as what they claim to be,” wrote J. L. Whitney (The Literary World, 1883).

词组	take at face value
释义	take at face value take (someone or something) at face value To accept or trust someone or something based only on an initial or superficial presentation, without taking further proof, verification, or investigation into account. I've learned never to take corporate PR statements at face value. It's hard to take Jeff at face value when he's been caught lying in the past. See also: face, take, value Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. take someone or something at face value to accept someone or something just as it appears; to believe that the way things appear is the way they really are. He means what he says. You have to take him at face value. I take everything he says at face value. See also: face, take, value take something at face value to accept something exactly the way it appears to be. I don't know whether I can take her story at face value, but I will assume that she is not lying. The committee took the report at face value and approved the suggested changes. See also: face, take, value McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. take somebody/something at face ˈvalue accept that somebody/something is exactly as they/it first appears: You can’t take everything she says at face value. A diplomat learns not to take everything at face value. See also: face, somebody, something, take, value Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary take at face value, to To accept something or someone at its apparent worth. The transfer of face value from monetary currency to other matters took place in the nineteenth century. “He must take advertisements of publishers at their face value and regard them as what they claim to be,” wrote J. L. Whitney (The Literary World, 1883). See also: face, take The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: at face value, take take (someone or something) at face value take somebody/something at face value absent (oneself) from (someone or something) absent oneself from judge a book by its cover, one can't not judge a book by its cover put lipstick on a pig lipstick lipstick on a pig
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