keep (someone) onside

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keep (someone) onside

To maintain someone's support or approval. If we want to expand our initiative, then we definitely need to keep the CEO onside.

get/keep somebody onˈside

get/keep somebody’s support: The government needs to keep the major national newspapers onside to help win votes in the election.

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"Officers are becoming agitated at what's happening, but talk of work-to-rule at this stage is totally premature." Writing in West Midlands Police's in-house magazine, Mr Tonks says: "Given the current climate - terrorist threat, potential for prison officers' strike, potential for prisoners to be accommodated in police cells etc - you would think they would want to keep us onside while faced with such problems.

Rank and file fury over pay 'betrayal' WORK-TO-RULE THREAT: Officers' angry after government reneges on 3 per cent rise