take at face value
verb1
Figuratively Accept as presented, without question or further investigation.
- Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested in understanding how marketers exploit them. They take shopping at face value.1991, Douglas Coupland, “New Zealand Gets Nuked, Too”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 68:
- Related terms
- on the face of it, take seriously, take someone at their word