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on someone's account

if you do something on someone's account, you do it because of that person. Don't cook anything special on my account. I'm not even very hungry.

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He ordered his coach to wait at a distance, and desired I would give him an hours audience; which I readily consented to, on account of his quality and personal merits, as well as of the many good offices he had done me during my solicitations at court. Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context I tell you, I regret it on account of others, but I am satisfied on my own account. A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context The honest captain is full of vexation on his own account, and solicitude on account of Mr. Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context More results

References in classic literature

He ordered his coach to wait at a distance, and desired I would give him an hours audience; which I readily consented to, on account of his quality and personal merits, as well as of the many good offices he had done me during my solicitations at court.

Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context

I tell you, I regret it on account of others, but I am satisfied on my own account.

A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context

The honest captain is full of vexation on his own account, and solicitude on account of Mr.

Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context

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