on second thoughts

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on second thoughts (British & Australian, American & Australian)

have second thoughts - if you have second thoughts about something, you change your opinion or start to have doubts about it. I'll have tea, please - on second thoughts, make that coffee.

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Possibly, too, Jonah might have ensconced himself in a hollow tooth; but, on second thoughts, the Right Whale is toothless. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context I was about to tell the story of my First Love, but on second thoughts I decide not. The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context Well, Rosa, this lad may be at Haarlem in ten hours; you will give me paper and pencil, and, perhaps better still, pen and ink, and I will write, or rather, on second thoughts, you will, for if I did, being a poor prisoner, people might, like your father, see a conspiracy in it. The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context More results

References in classic literature

Possibly, too, Jonah might have ensconced himself in a hollow tooth; but, on second thoughts, the Right Whale is toothless.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

I was about to tell the story of my First Love, but on second thoughts I decide not.

The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context

Well, Rosa, this lad may be at Haarlem in ten hours; you will give me paper and pencil, and, perhaps better still, pen and ink, and I will write, or rather, on second thoughts, you will, for if I did, being a poor prisoner, people might, like your father, see a conspiracy in it.

The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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