on the other hand
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (sequence, idiomatic) From another point of view.
- Well yes, it was quite a good bargain; on the other hand, do we really need one?
- 1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter [S%3AThe_American_Language%2FChapter_1 1], in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC ↗:
- Thus the study of the language he is supposed to use, to the average American, takes on a sort of bilingual character. On the one hand, he is grounded abominably in a grammar and syntax that have always been largely artificial, even in the country where they are supposed to prevail, and on the other hand he has to pick up the essentials of his actual speech as best he may.
- 1950, Bertrand Russell, acceptance speech for Nobel Prize in Literature
- I maintain, however, on the one hand, that there are few occasions upon which large bodies of men, such as politics is concerned with, can rise above selfishness, while, on the other hand, there are a very great many circumstances in which populations will fall below selfishness, if selfishness is interpreted as enlightened self-interest.
- but, however, still, then again, yet, conversely, vice versa, on the flipside
- French: d'un autre côté, en revanche, par contre, cela dit
- German: auf der anderen Seite, andererseits, hingegen, zum anderen
- Italian: dall'altro, dall'altro lato
- Portuguese: por outro lado
- Russian: с друго́й стороны́
- Spanish: por otro lado, por otra parte, por contra
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