trust someone across the street

verb

Synonym of trust someone as far as one could throw them.

Meanings

verbtrust someone across the street (third-person singular simple present trusts someone across the street, present participle trusting someone across the street, simple past and past participle trusted someone across the street)

present singular third person trusts someone across the street · participle present trusting someone across the street · participle past trusted someone across the street · past trusted someone across the street

  1. Synonym of trust someone as far as one could throw them.

    I've got another good friend in the Ministry, we're like two brothers, but I can't trust him across the street. You I can trust.

    1942, Lazar Herrmann, Leo Lania, Today We are Brothers: The Biography of a Generation, page 247

    Synonyms: trust someone as far as one could throw them

Synonyms & antonyms

verbSynonym of trust someone as far as one could throw them.

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