trust someone across the street
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[edit]Verb
[edit]trust 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)
- (chiefly in the negative) Synonym of trust someone as far as one could throw them
- 1942, Lazar Herrmann, Leo Lania, Today We are Brothers: The Biography of a Generation, page 247:
- 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.