on one's honor
English
Alternative forms
- upon one's honor, on one's honour (British)
Prepositional phrase
on one's honor
- (US) used to emphasize that one is behaving or going to behave in a trustworthy manner.
- (dated) expected to do what one has promised, expected to uphold one's promise.
- 1986, R.E.M. (lyrics and music), “I Believe”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:
- When I was young and fever fell / My spirit I will not tell / You're on your honor not to tell
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Further reading
- “on one's honor”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “on ones honor”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “on one's honour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “be on your honour” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “on your honour” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.