Phrase

Give The Benefit Of The Doubt

Meaning:

Believing someone despite any doubts you may have.

Examples:

  • Allow to have something, grant:Give the benefit of the doubt.
  • Who would you give the benefit of the doubt to?
  • Let's say I give the benefit of the doubt.
  • And we all give the benefit of the doubt to our own.
  • Right now, I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to family.
  • In spite of all the adversities, the Salvadorans give the benefit of the doubt to the team of the present administration.
  • The question we must ask, however, is why we should give the benefit of the doubt to a country experiencing such fundamental problems with democracy as corruption and a failure to protect the freedom of the press.