Looking for an idiom

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Operario

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Hi guys! I'm looking for an idiom that conveys the following idea: the act of listening to some opinion or idea and accepting it as truth without any kind of investigation, without any kind of thought on the subject.

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An idiom is not needed for this idea because we have an excellent word: gullible.

To listen to some opinion or idea and accept it as truth without any kind of investigation, without any kind of thought on the subject, is to be gullible. That's a definition suitable for a dictionary, albeit a trifle long.
 

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'She swore that she loved me and I swallowed her lies hook, line and sinker.

She pulled the wool over my eyes, took me for a ride and suckered me in good and proper.'

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How about "to take something at face value"?


By the way, my first post on the forums :)
 

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Welcome to the forums, dejavecue.:-D

Good answer!

Please read the Posting Guidelines.

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It may work - Love need no explanations.
 
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