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Dictionary translations for "prendre au mot"

prendre au mot verb

take at the word (se saisir aussitôt d'une proposition faite)

Contexts with "prendre au mot"

Je n'avais d'autre choix que de le prendre au mot. I had no other choice but to take him at his word.

Elle était tentée de le prendre au mot, croyant à peine qu'il mettrait sa menace à exécution. She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing that he would carry out his threat.

J'ai suivi au mot près ce que tu m'as dit. I followed to the letter what you have told me.

Prenez-moi au mot : pas de nouveaux impôts ! Read my lips, no new taxes!

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