take as gospel truth

take as gospel truth
accept/take (something) as gospel (truth) to believe that something is completely true.

You shouldn't accept as gospel everything you read in the newspapers.


New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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  • take something as gospel truth — accept/take (something) as gospel (truth) to believe that something is completely true. You shouldn t accept as gospel everything you read in the newspapers …   New idioms dictionary

  • take as gospel — accept/take (something) as gospel (truth) to believe that something is completely true. You shouldn t accept as gospel everything you read in the newspapers …   New idioms dictionary

  • accept as gospel truth — accept/take (something) as gospel (truth) to believe that something is completely true. You shouldn t accept as gospel everything you read in the newspapers …   New idioms dictionary

  • (the) gospel truth — the gospel truth phrase the complete truth I didn’t take your ring, and that’s the gospel truth. Thesaurus: truthsynonym Main entry: gospel …   Useful english dictionary

  • accept something as gospel truth — accept/take (something) as gospel (truth) to believe that something is completely true. You shouldn t accept as gospel everything you read in the newspapers …   New idioms dictionary

  • the gospel truth — the complete truth I didn t take your ring, and that s the gospel truth …   English dictionary

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  • gospel — noun 1 Gospel (C) one of the four stories of Christ s life in the Bible 2 (countable usually singular) a particular set of ideas that someone believes in very strongly and tries to persuade other people to accept: spread/preach the gospel:… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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