of one's word
English
Prepositional phrase
- 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.
- 1995, Mukul Kesavan, Looking Through Glass (→ISBN), page 1:
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