keep one's word

Honor one's promises, as in You can count on Richard; he'll keep his word. This expression employs word in the sense of "a promise," a usage dating from the late 1500s. For an antonym, see go back on.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ingeborg	['iŋgəbɔ:g]
HalİM	-	Turkish
Louella	loo-EL-ə	English
Dorte	DOR-te	Danish
Mostyn	-	Welsh
Zlata	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, Russian