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on (the) one hand

Fig. from one point of view; as one side (of an issue). On one hand, I really ought to support my team. On the other hand, I don't have the time to attend all the games. On the one hand, I really could use Ann's help. On the other hand, she and I don't get along very well.

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Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and, on the other, retailing them all to the younger Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her. Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context On one hand it is overhung by the crags of the hill, on the other by an old graveyard. Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context			on head be it on heels on high on high horse on hobbyhorse on hold on honor on horseback on ice on impulse on its feet on its last legs on its merits on knees on land on last legs on loan on location on medication on mind on moral grounds on nerves on no account on no account must on occasion on one hand on order on own account on own hook on own time on pain of on pain of death on paper on par on parole on patrol on person on pins and needles on principle on probation on purpose on radar on record on sale on say-so on schedule on second thought on shaky ground on short notice on shoulders on side			On My Work Bench on nerves on no account on no account on no account on no account on no account on no account on no account must on no account should on no occasion on nodding terms on nodding terms on nodding terms On Numbers and Games on oath on oath on oath on oath on occasion on occasion on occasion on occasion on occasions on occasions on occasions On Off Dieting On off keying On Official Duty On Old Olympus Towering Top A Finn and German Viewed A Horse on one hand on one side on one side on one side on one side on one side only on one's guard On one's hands on one's high horse On one's honor On one's last legs On one's legs On one's own account On one's own hook on one’s deathbed on one’s guard on one’s word on one’s word of honor on or about on or about on or about On or After On or After Data Release on or before on order on order on order on order on order on order on order

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