• conservator, sustaining
• caveat, continuance, maintenance, proviso, reservation, reserve, salvo, support, sustenance, vindication
• preserved, reserved, upheld
• without committing oneself
• to keep afloat, to live on sg
• without qualification, without reservation
• to take with a grain of salt
• to maintain the respectabilities
• to maintain the respectabilities
• to keep one's head above water, to keep oneself above water
• to place confidence in sy, to place every confidence in sy, to trust sy implicitly
• to take a statement with a grain of salt, to take a statement with a pinch of salt
• to reserve the right of recourse