on faith, take it



on faith, take it

Trust, accept without proof, as in I have no firm evidence that Bob's responsible for the errors-you'll just have to take it on faith . This idiom employs faith in the sense of "belief or confidence in something," a usage dating from about 1300.
See also: on, take

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Inez-English
'Ammar-Arabic
Yitzhak-Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Brian[braiən]
Florenciaflo-REN-thyah (Spanish), flo-REN-syah (Latin American Spanish)Spanish
Ellsworth['elzwə:θ]