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Значение идиомы take stock in
[take stock in] {v. phr.}, {informal} To have faith in; trust;believe. – Usually used in the negative.
He took no stock in theidea that women were better cooks than men.
They took little or nostock in the boy’s story that he had lost the money.
Do you takeany stock in the gossip about Joan?
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