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Countries, like people, must keep their word.
The most successful people tend to value others and keep their word because it demonstrates integrity — a key attribute for achievement.
Самые успешные люди склонны ценить других и держать свое слово, потому что оно демонстрирует целостность — ключевой атрибут достижения.
They try to keep their word.
They work hard and keep their word.
Not all people can keep their word.
We expect them to keep their word.
Hopefully they will keep their word.
Commerce benefits everyone only when people keep their word.
Торговля приносит пользу каждому, но только если люди держат свое слово.
Let’s hope they keep their word.
I value those who keep their word.
Pirates are honest and keep their word.
And no matter what happens in their lives, they keep their word.
И, что бы ни происходило в их жизнях, они держат слово.
In that connection, the efforts of some partners, those who were striving to keep their word, must be commended.
В этой связи необходимо приветствовать усилия, предпринимаемые некоторыми партнерами, которые пытаются сдержать свое слово.
And we are still waiting for them to keep their word.
As far as I know, they always keep their word.
When they talk about war, they keep their word.
All men should keep their word, kings most of all.
If you can believe they’ll keep their word.
Of course, there’s no guarantee the criminals will keep their word.
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keep (one’s) word
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keep (one’s) word
To do as one has promised. Tom always keeps his word, so if he promised to help you move, then he’ll be here.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
keep one’s word
to uphold one’s promise; to do as one says. (The opposite of break one’s word.) I told her I’d be there to pick her up, and I intend to keep my word. Keeping one’s word is necessary in the legal profession.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
keep/break your ˈword
do/fail to do what you have promised: Do you think she’ll break her word and tell everyone?
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
- keep one’s word
- keep word
- true to (one’s) word
- true to word
- as good as (one’s) word
- as good as word
- be as good as (one’s) word
- be as good as your word
- break one’s word
- break word
References in periodicals archive
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If the BBC can no longer afford the cost, then the Tories should keep their word and help with the funding.
But they did keep their word and return PS7300 to Stacey, 34, a software project manager.
LAHORE: Soon after the advent of winter, complaints of low gas pressure in various parts of the city areincreasing excessively.Government authorities failed to keep their word by assuring sufficient supply of gas.
They failed to keep their word. Figures we publish today show 67,000 disabled Scots — including those suffering from cancer and Parkinson’s — are to have their benefits cut by the latest budget.
To assure someone you’ll keep your word in Arabic we say, «Don’t worry, put a watermelon in your stomach,» meaning, «You can count on me.» I’d like to throw that watermelon at whomever says it and then doesn’t keep their word. Why is it so hard to say the truth, why can’t we commit when we give promises?
Over-55s claim they can keep their word for at least a week, as opposed to under-25s who keep theirs for five days.
If, on the other hand, a deal is reached, how many of them will really keep their word? Even if the climate change idea was proved to be 100% true they will probably still go jetting around the world, as they always have, wasting more money and thinking up more ways to tax the public still further while telling ‘themselves’ Greenhouse Gases: What on Earth are they?
The only way to make them keep their word is to put pressure on them.
«This is a positive development and it shows the Swiss keep their word,» she said.
Gams is seeking help from the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and others to help protect the people and land in Chad and Cameroon by pressuring ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, and Petronas to disclose their financial Record and demonstrate their plan to keep their word or stop the project.
The two leaders, standing side by side in the Rose Garden of the White House, said they would keep their word to the Iraqi people and see the job through.
The two leaders, standing in the garden of the White House, said they would keep their word to the Iraqi people and see the job through.
LAHORE: Soon after the advent of winter, complaints of low gas pressure in various parts of the city are raising excessively.Government authorities failed to keep their word by assuring sufficient supply of gas.
Speaking outside court, he said: «It’s rare that someone in public life is prepared to keep their word.
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- keep their paws off him
- keep their paws off me
- keep their paws off them
- keep their paws off us
- keep their paws off you
- keep their peace
- keep their place
- keep their powder dry
- keep their promise
- keep their promises
- keep their seat
- keep their seat warm
- keep their seat warm for
- keep their seats
- keep their shirt one
- keep their shorts one
- keep their shoulder to the wheel
- keep their shoulders to the wheel
- keep their side of the bargain
- keep their slate clean
- keep their slates clean
- keep their socks on
- keep their socks on!
- keep their temper
- keep their voice down
- keep their weather eye open
- keep their weather eyes open
- keep their wig on
- keep their wigs on
- keep their wits about them
- keep their word
- keep them about
- keep them abreast of
- keep them abreast of it
- keep them abreast of someone
- keep them abreast of something
- keep them afloat
- keep them ahead
- keep them ahead of
- keep them amused
- keep them apart
- keep them around
- keep them at a distance
- keep them at arm’s length
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- keep them away
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- keep them behind
- keep them busy
- keep them company
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Discovery Passage: Matthew 5:33-37 Do NOT teach these following truths- ask questions until they discover the basic idea that:
Отрывок: Деяния 5: 1- 11 НЕ преподавайте эти истины- задайте вопросы до тех пор, пока люди не поймут основной идеи:
Farmers look for business partners who are financially strong, keep their word and offer fair prices.
Фермеры ищут деловых партнеров, которые сильны в финансовом отношении, держут свое слово и предлагают корректные цены.
Looks like they kept their word as the new repository began to work on Friday.
As always, the Chinese authorities kept their word, much to the gratification of the African peoples who were
the recipients of this great generosity.
Китайские власти, как обычно, сдержали свое слово к большому удовлетворению африканских народов, воспользовавшихся этой великой щедростью.
The Russian authorities kept their word, as the beginning of 2006 as“Year of CIS” has
entered in history through Russian TV channels, which demonstrated how first-ranking functionaries of GAZPROM started imposing the“monetisation” of economic relations and the“civilised divorce”.
Власти России свое слово сдержали: начало 2006 года как« Года СНГ» вошло в историю благодаря
усилиям российских телеканалов, которые наглядно продемонстрировали, как представители первого ранга« Газпрома» разворачивают явную процедуру« монетизации» экономических отношений и подспудную процедуру« цивилизованного развода»,
When addressing the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 16 November this year and speaking in favour of Ukraine’s accession to the NPT,
Выступая перед Верховным Советом 16 ноября этого года за присоединение Украины к ДНЯО, я не в последнюю очередь рассчитывал и на то,
Still, there were those who would not keep their word: not to interfere with the teaching process.
Однако на уроке находились те, кто не держал своего честного слова: не мешать преподавателю.
But Saltanat’s hopes are dashed,
when she discovers that the men in this city don’t keep their word.
In that connection, the efforts of some partners, those who were striving to keep their word, must be commended.
В этой связи необходимо приветствовать усилия, предпринимаемые некоторыми партнерами, которые пытаются сдержать свое слово.
If today there were no units like the 10th, that fight that keep their word know what the Germans would do?
Если бь сегодня не бьло таких отрядов, как Х- я, которье сражаются, которье держат свое слово, знаешь, что сделали бь немць? Они превратили бь нас,?
They urged the parties to keep their word to observe the cessation of hostilities
and noted that they would be reporting on the talks to the Security Council and to the European Community.
что они представят доклад о ходе переговоров Совету Безопасности и Европейскому сообществу.
Once again, we call upon the nuclear-weapon States,
several of which are depositaries of the Treaty, to keep their word and to speed up the work to implement the 13 practical
measures for nuclear disarmament agreed upon in 2000.
Мы вновь призываем обладающие ядерным оружием государства,
некоторые из которых являются депозитариями Договора, сдержать свое слово и ускорить работу по реализации тринадцати практических мер в области
ядерного разоружения, согласованных в 2000 году.
Two of them have kept their word and are no longer involved in any such activity.
It was decided that Washington and Teheran would lower the tensions in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Bahreïn for the next three months, and that the Geneva agreement would not be signed until the end of June,
and would remain valid for the next ten years if both parties had kept their word.
Было решено, что Вашингтон и Тегеран в течение ближайших трех месяцев снизят напряженность в Палестине, Ливане, Сирии и Бахрейне, а женевское соглашение будет подписано только в конце июня и сроком на 10 лет,
We will see whether or not officials
keep
their word.
Остается посмотреть, сдержат ли власти свое слово на сей раз, или нет.
The question is how these personalities, who are by their nature can’t keep word and observe agreements and are unable to celebrate each one’s victory,
Вопрос, как смогут договориться персонажи, которые по своей природе не умеют держать слово и соблюдать договоренности, неспособны« гулять чужую свадьбу».
They always keep
their
word and fulfill
their
promises!
Our company employs people who respect the deadlines,
well know technology performs electrical work and keep
their
word, whereby with a reasonable value for money.
В нашей фирме работают люди, которые соблюдают сроки,
хорошо знают технологию выполняемых электромонтажных работ и держат слово, причем с разумным соотношением цены и качества.
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— keep [verb]
verb: держать, сохранять, хранить, иметь, вести, содержать, соблюдать, держаться, оставаться, придерживаться
noun: содержание, пища, прокорм, главная башня, запас корма для скота, контрбукса
- keep one’s wool on — сохранять самообладание
- keep options open — не торопиться с решением
- keep them low — держать их на низком уровне
- going to keep — будет держать
- attempt to keep pace — пытаются идти в ногу
- to keep a strong sense — сохранить сильное чувство
- to keep cells — чтобы сохранить клетки
- to keep the minutes — держать минут
- to keep vigil — бодрствовать
- keep seeking — продолжать искать
— their [article]
pronoun: их, свои, свой, свое
- make someone jump out of their skin — заставить кого-то выпрыгнуть из их кожи
- from the bottom of their heart — от всей души
- assert their position — отстаивать свои позиции
- draw their water — черпают воду
- on their smartphones — на своих смартфонах
- of their respective contracts — соответствующих договоров
- their spread — их распространение
- in their communities — в их общинах
- their own transcription — их собственная транскрипция
- to question their own assumptions — на вопрос их собственные предположения
— word [noun]
noun: слово, речь, текст, известие, обещание, замечание, пароль, разговор, девиз, лозунг
verb: вести, сформулировать, выражать словами, подбирать выражения
- word-for-word translation — дословный перевод
- bluetooth word mark and logos — Bluetooth знак и логотипы
- word processors — текстовые процессоры
- your word counts — Ваш подсчет слов
- word limit — максимальное количество слов
- better word — лучшее слово
- for want of a better word — за неимением лучшего слова
- i want your word — я хочу ваше слово
- is the right word — правильное слово
- honor your word — почитай слово
Предложения с «keep their word»
She was on the wait list at Greenwich Country Day and they promised her admission, but they didn’t keep their word. |
Она была в листе ожидания в Гринвич Кантри Дэй, и ей пообещали поступление, но не сдержали слова . |
All men should keep their word, kings most of all. |
Мужчины должны держать свое слово , а короли тем более. |
Second, everyone must keep their word. |
Второе: все должны разговаривать хорошими словами … |
I assumed that they would keep their word. |
Но я думал, что слово чести хоть что — то значит! |
It is often said that these leaders keep their word and are honest and open with their cohorts. |
Часто говорят, что эти лидеры держат свое слово и честны и открыты со своими соратниками. |
Every writer you know writes really terrible first drafts, but they keep their butt in the chair. |
Каждый известный вам писатель пишет просто ужасные первые наброски, но он продолжает высиживать. |
We were helping train and equip them to put on the masks, the gloves and the gowns that they needed to keep themselves safe from the virus while they were serving their patients. |
Мы помогали обучать их и снабжали их масками, перчатками и мантиями, необходимыми для защиты от вируса при работе с пациентами. |
They use sound to study their habitat, to keep in communication with each other, to navigate, to detect predators and prey. |
Они используют звуки для исследования среды обитания, чтобы общаться друг с другом, ориентироваться, обнаруживать хищников и добычу. |
He said, That’s the place where white folks keep all their money. |
Он объяснил: Это место, где белые хранят свои деньги. |
Those unemployment numbers I keep on referencing come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and to make their estimates, they speak to over 140,000 businesses in this country. |
Эти данные по безработице, на которые я ссылаюсь, приходят от Бюро статистики труда, и чтобы их подсчитать, они опрашивают более 140 000 предприятий. |
Funny enough, I found that this was a 19th century Austrian tradition, where couples in courtship would keep a slice of apple crammed under their armpit during dances, and at the end of the evening, the girl would give the guy she most fancied her used fruit, and if the feeling was mutual, he would wolf down that stinky apple. |
Забавно, что в XIX веке в Австрии была традиция, когда пары в период ухаживания держали ломтик яблока под мышкой во время танцев, а в конце вечера девушка давала парню свой использованный фрукт, и если чувства были взаимными, он с жадностью съедал вонючее яблоко. |
Remember, they’re programmed right into their DNA to keep secrets. |
Помните, хранение секретов у них в крови. |
I had them keep track of their time for a week so I could add up how much they worked and slept, and I interviewed them about their strategies, for my book. |
Я просила их отслеживать своё время за неделю, чтобы высчитать часы на работу и сон, и я поговорила с ними о стратегиях для своей книги. |
The truth is they are too lazy to tidy up their flat after a pet once again, too lazy to keep their house, staircase, yard and street clean. |
Истина же в том, что люди ленятся убирать за животным в квартире лишний раз, ленятся содержать в чистоте свои дома, подъезды, дворы и улицы. |
People will want to keep their freedom after this dictatorship. |
Люди захотят оставить свою свободу после такой диктатуры |
You are their superior and must keep your distance |
Вы должны быть выше их и сохранять дистанцию |
But their mother must keep them out and active. |
Но их мать должна сохранять их активными в логове. |
I am going to make sure they keep their promise. |
Я собираюсь убедиться, что они сдержат свое обещание. |
Did Danny keep their files in his personal records? |
А Денни хранит их файлы в своих личных записях? |
I hate it when people lie and can’t keep their promise. |
Я ненавижу, когда люди лгут и не могут выполнить свое обещание. |
English people are proud of their traditions and they keep them up. |
Англичане гордятся своими традициями и соблюдают их. |
The English are very fastidious about their meals and keep to their meal times strictly. |
Англичане очень требовательны к своему питанию и строго придерживаются режима питания. |
Тheir mothers and fathers, and their friends laugh and have a good time when they read them The children promise to keep them. |
Их отцы и матери и их друзья смеются и хорошо проводят время, когда они дети зачитывают и обещают выполнять их. |
Their journeys were very dangerous-but still people keep on going to the unknown lands. |
Их путешествия были очень опасными, но люди все продолжали идти к неизведанным землям. |
There are different opinions on how children should be treated if they disobey their parents, break the rules, do forbidden things, don’t keep their words or promises. |
Есть различные мнения относительно того, как детей нужно рассмотреть, если они не повинуются их родителям, нарушают правила, делают запрещенные вещи, не держите их слова или обещания. |
Federal officers may keep their sidearms and other general possessions. |
Федеральные офицеры могут сохранить при себе личное оружие и любое иное имущество. |
You will keep the peace while the people choose their own leaders. |
Вы будете хранить этот мир, пока народ не выберет собственных правителей. |
We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. |
Искусственно поддерживаем их внутренне — секреторный баланс на юношеском уровне. |
And there was the spice of distant possibility to keep a tang in their relationship. |
Их отношениям лишь добавляло остроты то, что некая отдаленная возможность все же маячила на горизонте. |
Occasionally we have to throw implosion a bone to keep them from chewing through their leashes. |
Нам надо изредка кидать имплозивщикам кость, дабы не сгрызли свои поводки. |
Haul ass through the next one, hope the Iraqis keep their heads down. |
Везём задницы в следующий, в надежде что Иракцы не будут высовываться. |
Like a serpent sluggish with the cold, the columns of the South poured on down the Vale, to take their places in the line of march, while their Commander halted by the doors of the Keep. |
Ленивой змеей колонны южан стекали в Долину, чтобы занять свои места в общем строю. |
I’ll get you that information on the FBI cars, but they keep their vehicles under close guard. |
Я достану тебе информацию о тех машинах ФБР, но они держат их под пристальной охраной. |
The men of Power took pride in their work, and their work was to keep the power running. |
Люди из Энергетики гордились своей работой, а их работа состояла в бесперебойной подаче энергии. |
It was thought unnecessary now to keep the soldiers moving and in ranks by means of twinges from their antennas. |
Солдат больше не нужно было заставлять двигаться и соблюдать строй при помощи антенн. |
Many of our clients have information in their medical records that they prefer to keep private. |
Наши клиенты хотят оставить записи в этих бумагах конфиденциальными. |
Don’t you know that politicians tend to keep their concubines in the closet? |
Ты разве не знаешь, что политики прячут своих любовниц в шкафу? |
You needed something in their DNA to keep your species growing through interbreeding. |
Было нечто в их ДНК что заставляло расти вашу популяцию в результате скрещивания. |
The dungeon where I keep rude people who run their mouth. |
То, что я делаю с такими грубиянами, как ты. |
You’ll care for the children, bathe them, keep them out of harm’s way as their new governess. |
Ты заботишься о детях, купаешь их, оберегаешь в качестве новой гувернантки. |
They need to make enough iron to make the heat worth it, to pay their workers, and to keep their furnaces going. |
Им нужно производить достаточно металла, чтобы окупать затраты, платить рабочим и поддерживать непрерывную работу печей. |
Apparently they feel they have to maintain this fiction to keep their people in line. |
Очевидно, они считают, что поддержание этой фикции помогает им управлять их людьми. |
What I have here I keep for their aesthetic and sentimental value. |
Я держу эти мечи для услаждения чувств и эстетического удовольствия. |
There’s a good reason covert operatives keep their work a secret from their families. |
Есть веская причина на то, почему секретные агенты хранят свою работу в секрете от семьи. |
We can’t keep up with their pace through normal chain of commands. |
С нашей системой отчётности мы не можем действовать в темпе наравне с ними. |
You cannot control your underlings if you don’t keep them in constant fear of losing their position. |
Низших чинов следует держать в постоянном страхе, чтобы они крепко цеплялись за свое положение. |
The newspapers and magazines always keep the pictures they publish in their archives. |
Газеты и журналы всегда хранят опубликованные снимки в своих архивах. |
Adding a little gimmick will be an incentive for people to keep their reservations. |
Добавление маленькой уловки побуждает людей на сохранение их резервации. |
His black scowl compelled them to hold their tongues and keep their distance. |
Его мрачный вид заставил вождей попридержать языки и держаться на почтительном расстоянии. |
These people did not lie, but there was nothing to keep them from believing that their stories were true. |
Эти люди не лгали, но ничто не мешало им верить, что их росказни были правдой. |
I mean, he would suspend players or kick them off the team if they didn’t keep their GPAs up. |
Он отстранял игроков и даже выгонял их из команды если их успеваемость падала. |
There’s no point in their taking something they can’t keep. |
На данном этапе они не могут позволить себе захватывать то, что не в силах удержать. |
Now she could only count on their fear to keep them at arm’s length. |
Теперь же она могла полагаться лишь на то, что страх попридержит их на расстоянии. |
Both sides keep their own possessions and common properties will be divided by your own agreement |
Обе стороны оставляют свои имущества себе, а общая собственность будет разделена по вашему соглашению. |
Good story to keep husbands from wandering away from their pregnant wives. |
Хороший предлог, чтобы мужья не оставляли своих беременных жён без присмотра. |
Innovative companies like CareMore in California are using ICT to keep their clientele healthy and out of the hospital. |
Такие новаторские медицинские компании, как компания СагёМогё из штата Калифорния, используют ИКТ для поддержания здоровья своих клиентов и для того, чтобы они не оказались в больнице. |
At McCabe-Grey, we always ask how can we keep people healthy so they can enjoy their lives to the fullest? |
В МакКейб — Грей, мы всегда спрашиваем как мы можем помочь людям оставаться здоровыми чтобы они могли в полной мере наслаждаться жизнью? |
Support to keep seniors healthy and active in their homes and communities. |
поддержка, призванная способствовать доброму здоровью и бодрому самочувствию престарелых как дома, так и в их общинах. |
It’s in their financial interest to keep you afflicted, so just walk one block outside of your safe zone, sit on a park bench and ask a stranger for the time. |
В их финансовых интересах поддерживать твое состояние, а не лечить, просто отойди на один блок от своей безопасной зоны, сядь на скамейку в парке и спроси у незнакомца время. |
As long as they could not exercise their right of self-determination, it would be impossible to keep young people motivated. |
До тех пор пока они не смогут реализовать свое право на самоопределение, невозможно поддерживать мотивацию молодежи. |
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keep one’s word
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: to do what one promised
You’d better keep your word.
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