regards a person as innocent unless confirmed otherwise
to be judged innocent, unless the conviction is proved
to treat a person as innocent till not proven convicted
to choose to believe someone, even if you are not sure what the person is saying is true
to believe something is good about someone, while its chances of being bad are equal in reality
Let’s give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she is right.
I don’t believe that he didn’t take the money, but I will give him the benefit of the doubt until I can prove otherwise.
She said that she will be on time today. I don’t think that’s true, but I will give her the benefit of the doubt.
I think Peter broke the window but he denies it. I will give him the benefit of the doubt until I can get the video from the surveillance company.
John deserves the benefits of doubt until the final results of racing competition.
There is no origin for this idiom
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