count on sb
— phrasal verb with count uk/kaʊnt/us/kaʊnt/verb
B2 to be confident that you can depend on someone:
You can always count on Michael in a crisis.
[ + to infinitive ] I can count on my parents to help me.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Trusting and not trusting
- (you can) depend on/upon it idiom
- accept/take sth on faith idiom
- bank
- bank on sb/sth
- believe
- believe in sb
- count
- faith
- have faith! idiom
- I wouldn't trust sb as far as I could throw them idiom
- keep faith with sth/sb idiom
- lean
- lean on sb/sth
- reliance
- rely on/upon sb/sth
- repose
- repose trust/confidence/hope in sb/sth idiom
- trust
- trustable
- turn
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