face value

[face value] {n.}

1. The worth or price printed on a stamp, bond, note, piece of paper money, etc.

* /The savings bond had a face value of $25./

2. The seeming worth or truth of something.

* /She took his stories at face value and did not know he was joking./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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