give someone the benefit of the doubt idiom
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to believe something good about someone, rather than something bad, when you have the possibility of doing either
I didn't know whether his story was true or not, but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt. 我不知道他说的是真是假，不过我决定姑且相信他这一次。
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