🗓️ Idiom: A Leap of Faith (n)
💬 Meaning
- A decision to do something even if you’re not sure it will succeed.
- It means trusting something or someone without having full proof or certainty.
🧠 Example Sentences
- Launching the product without testing was a leap of faith, but it paid off.
- She took a leap of faith and left her job to start her own company.
- Choosing a bold design for the app was a leap of faith from the team.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom comes from the idea of jumping forward even when you don’t know exactly where you’ll land. It’s often used in business to describe bold decisions made with hope and trust instead of full evidence.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
We took __________ by investing in a new and untested technology.
Answer
a leap of faith
2. Choose the correct meaning of “a leap of faith”:
A) A careful and tested plan
B) A risky choice based on trust
C) A slow and safe approach
D) A repeated method
Answer
B) A risky choice based on trust
3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:
“They decided to trust the idea even though they had no guarantee it would work.” → Change the sentence using: a leap of faith
Answer
They took a leap of faith and trusted the idea.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
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