trust someone across the street

trust someone across the street (third-person singular simple present trusts someone across the street, present participle trusting someone across the street, simple past and past participle trusted someone across the street)

1. (chiefly in the negative) Synonym of trust someone as far as one could throw them
   • 1942, Lazar Herrmann, Leo Lania, Today We are Brothers: The Biography of a Generation, page 247:

     I've got another good friend in the Ministry, we're like two brothers, but I can't trust him across the street. You I can trust.