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this side of
Idioms and Phrases
Short of, before, as in I think she's still this side of forty , or I doubt they'll arrive this side of noon . [First half of 1400s]Example Sentences
A lot of people didn’t even know about this side of skating.
On this side of the Atlantic, underpinning globalisation and free trade are the theories of 19th-Century British economist David Ricardo.
Social scientist Clare Moriarty noticed an important theme in McGregor’s White House remarks, one which suggested his true audience wasn’t the people of Ireland — for whom he’s very close to persona non grata these days — but their distant cousins on this side of the pond.
But his statement also highlighted how Trump is changing the political messaging on this side of the border.
“I was ready to embrace this side of myself I’d always been a bit embarrassed of in the past.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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