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单词 aside
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asideadv.prep.adj.n.

/əˈsʌɪd/
Forms: Middle English o side, oside, o syde, osyde. Middle English on syd, Middle English–1500s on syde, on side; Middle English–1500s a-syde, a syde, asyde, Middle English acyde, 1500s assyde, Middle English– aside.
Etymology: originally a phrase, on side : see a prep.1 (Used in U.S. in various expressions where apart is used in England.)
A. adv.
I. Of motion.
1. To one side; out of the way, away.
ΘΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] > aside or to the side
asidec1330
forbyec1330
besidea1400
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [adverb] > removed > aside or out of the way
asidec1330
byc1425
offside1933
c1330 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) 130 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 119 Þe sarrazins seiȝe þai com & flowen oside [a1450 Caius asyde], alle & som.
c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 537 Otuwel starte o side, & lette þe swerd bi him glide.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2297 Þe coupes of gold were treden a-syde al with mannis fet.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 115 Þai draw þam o syde.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vii. 1 Draw aside the curtaines. View more context for this quotation
1694 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 292 The agent..is gone aside, and hath carried with him 2000l. in money belonging to the troop.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 245 To evade and slip aside from difficulty. View more context for this quotation
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake v. 212 Whose brazen studs and tough bull-hide Had death so often dashed aside.
2. Away from the general throng or main body, into seclusion or privacy, apart.
Π
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lii. l. 925 Kyng Orkaws took he Asyde.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 481 Þis knyght callid þe monke osyde.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) v. i. 212 But soft, aside; heere comes the King.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 103 When she has calv'd, then set the Dam aside . View more context for this quotation
1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xlvii. 239 One gentleman drew another aside to speak in an under-tone about Scotch bullocks.
3. Away from one's person; off, down.
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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > away from some thing or place > away from one's person
aside1590
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [adverb] > removed > away from one's person
aside1590
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C2 Her fillet she vndight, And layd her stole aside.
1611 Bible (King James) Heb. xii. 1 Let us lay aside every weight. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 A Snake..has cast his slough aside . View more context for this quotation
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 77 Each.., cast his lance aside, And doff'd his helm.
4. Away from consideration or employment, out of thought or use; esp. in to lay or set aside: (figurative) to put away, give up, dismiss, reject.
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the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adverb] > by way of rejection or repudiation
asidec1440
in the negative1647
disavowedly1698
rejectingly1832
dismissingly1880
dismissively1922
c1440 Partonope 5039 Hereth yt and than ley hyt asyde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Amos ii. A He hath cast asyde the lawe of the Lorde.
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 104 Setting the atraction of my Good parts aside.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. iii. 71 Come, lay aside your stitchery. View more context for this quotation
1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne iii. 56 He often laid aside decorum.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) i. §5. 45 He set aside all dreams of the recovery of the West-Saxon overlordship.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §4. 298 To fling aside traditional dogmas.
5. Law. to set aside (a verdict judgement, etc.): to declare it of no authority; to quash.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > appeal or review > [verb (transitive)] > review > overturn a judgement or sentence
reverse1395
control1592
overturn1842
to set aside1861
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (new ed.) App. iii. 428 Whose decisions it could set aside for error in law.
1883 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 11 591 A rule was subsequently obtained..to set that non-suit aside.
II. Of direction.
6. Towards one side, off from the direct line.
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the world > space > direction > [adverb] > off the direct line
asidea1398
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [adverb] > aside from proper course
asidea1398
far-about1483
wide1536
a-skie1554
tangentially1903
tangently1903
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xxx. 513 A liȝte beme is ibroke oþir ischuft aside.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Sam. vi. 6 For the oxen wente out asyde.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xiv. 3 They are all gone aside, they are together become filthy. View more context for this quotation
1816 Ld. Byron Parisina xiv, in Siege of Corinth 80 As bow-strings, when relaxed by rain, The erring arrow launch aside.
7. Sidewise, obliquely.
ΘΠ
the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > so as to incline to one side
asidec1369
asidesc1384
asidenc1503
sideling1585
sideways1645
sidewise1762
sidelong1879
baw-ways1907
the world > space > direction > [adverb] > off the direct line > obliquely
asidec1369
aslanta1400
slant1495
obliquely1503
asklenta1540
askew1565
slantingly1570
slantwise1573
wry1575
bias?1578
askance1590
askant1602
slantinga1625
asquint1645
across1700
slantly1719
akimboc1796
slantways1828
aslantwise1852
slantingways1899
c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 558 With that he loked on me asyde, As who sayth nay, that wol not be.
1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 6 Acyde, oblique.
1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iv. 32 Practis'd to Lisp, and hang the Head aside.
1775 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1848) li. 463/1 We saw the Queen mount..Brown habit: rode aside.
III. Of position.
†8. On one side, away, off. Obsolete.
ΘΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adverb] > on or at one side
sideOE
sidenhand?a1400
sidelings?a1425
sidenhands1440
sideling1543
sideway1561
side hand1577
atoneside1600
aside1610
sideways1673
sidewards1722
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 681 The twentieth Legion..abode at Chester scarce sixe miles a side from hence.
9. Apart from the general company; in privacy. to speak aside, i.e. apart, so as to be inaudible to the general company. Used as a stage direction in plays, to indicate that certain words are to be spoken out of the hearing of other characters on the stage.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > to the side or aside [phrase]
on sideOE
asiden-hand1440
asidec1460
aside-hand1471
over score1513
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > privacy > [adverb]
privement?c1225
privilya1250
asidesc1384
out of commonaltya1400
privatelyc1425
privatec1443
asidec1460
in private1469
under the rose1546
closely1552
on private1582
in particular1585
retiredly1599
sotto voce1819
in camera1826
on the quiet1856
on the (strict) q.t.1885
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak in an undertone
(to speak) like a mouse in a cheese1584
to speak aside1801
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 619 The Pardoner stood a-syde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xiii. A He was yet kepte a syde because of Saul.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. i. 54 Let's stand aside and see the end of this controuersie. View more context for this quotation
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xiv. 72 ‘You won't blow us to Clary,’ added he aside to her ladyship.
1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles ii. vii. 49 Then lords and ladies spake aside.
10.
a. = apart adv.1 5 (? Only in U.S.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [adverb] > laid aside
apart1717
aside1860
1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 640 Leaving the question of competency aside.
1871 R. G. White Words & their Uses 20 But, pronouns..and ‘auxiliary’ verbs aside, it [Chaucer's English] is a mixture, etc.
b. aside from (= British ‘apart from’): (a) besides, in addition to; without reckoning or including; (b) except for (U.S.).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclusiveness [preposition] > except or excepting
savec1330
out-takenc1384
saving1386
other thana1425
savea1500
reserving1541
salvo1601
to set aside1610
abstracting from1614
save fora1616
sans1659
exclude1720
aside from1818
saufc1844
out-taking1848
secludinga1851
1818 Ticknor in Life, Lett., & Jrnls. (1876) I. 206 Aside from this, the mere show is more magnificent than can be seen at any other court in Europe.
1847 L. Collins Historical Sketches Kentucky 507 The college..possesses revenues, aside from tuition, sufficient to maintain the faculty.
1852 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 3 184 Humanity, aside from interest, would direct such a system of treatment.
1865 R. G. White Mem. Shakespeare 31 But, aside from question of the kind of training.
1905 Forum Apr. 598 The city, aside from being a great industrial..centre, enjoys..a high moral record.
1861 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1910) V. 303 Aside from the upheavals made by our engineers,..I don't think I have ever seen a more dreary region.1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 4 Aside from the use of Dentalium pretiosum as money, I saw [etc.].1902 H. E. Bourne Teaching Hist. & Civics 303 Aside from the wars in Europe..the history of the colonies..is uneventful.1905 Springfield Weekly Republican 25 June 14 Aside from a severe fright, Mr. Houghton was uninjured.1931 H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt i. iii. 35 Aside from boxing, Roosevelt's..activities at Harvard are of slight importance.
11. By the side, alongside (obsolete). aside of: by the side of, alongside of. archaic and dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adverb]
acostc1330
collaterally?a1475
aflank1577
aside of1630
laterally1646
1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) iv. 33 A shippe.. which tooke his course aside of vs.
1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. iii. 136 Brown ale..From ancient vessels ranged aside.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 24 We..are mere carpet-knights aside of these indomitable savages.
12. ? On each side. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adverb]
umbeOE
umbetrinc1175
avirounc1300
roundc1300
aroundc1330
aboutsa1387
about rounda1393
compassa1400
round about?a1400
about-forthc1400
umbeturnc1400
acompassc1450
ambiently1659
aside1859
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 149 A crown Of diamonds, one in front, and four aside.
B. prep. [by omission of of.]
1. At the side of, beside. (Still in Scottish)
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > on the side of [preposition] > along or by the side of
alongeOE
alongstc1180
besidesc1200
besidec1275
aboard1449
longs1488
sidelong1577
aside?1615
alongside1704
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) vii. 215 And in the ashes sat, Aside the fire.
1743 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XIII. 175 The shop that was aside the house.
1807 R. Tannahill Soldier's Return 153 Since, Maggie, I am in aside ye.
†2. Past, beyond. Obsolete.
ΘΠ
the world > space > distance > distance or farness > distant from [preposition] > on the farther side of
beyonda1000
througha1591
aside1597
ayond1724
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 26 The milde Prince (Taking thy part) hath rushd aside the law. View more context for this quotation
1663 J. Heath Flagellum (1672) 22 Which resolution he had taken up before..and was put aside it, by the amplitude of that Fortune.
C. adj.
[The adverb used attributively.]
Π
1882 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool xl, in Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 400/1 ‘It's extraordinary’..observed Sinclair, in an aside tone.
D. n. [the adverb used absol.; compare A. 9.]
1. Words spoken aside or in an undertone, so as to be inaudible to some person present; words spoken by an actor, which the other performers, on the stage are supposed not to hear.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > undertone > an utterance in an undertone
aside1728
side-remark1825
sotto voce1868
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > words spoken by actors > types of
cue1553
anteloquy1623
aside1728
catchword1755
side soliloquy1842
gag1847
gravy1864
fluff1891
laugh line1913
rhubarb1919
curtain line1939
walla1949
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) An Aside, Seorsim, is something which an Actor speaks a-part, or, as it were, to himself.
1834 T. B. Macaulay Earl of Chatham in Ess. (1854) I. 293/2 Every tone from the impassioned cry to the thrilling aside.
a1845 Hood (title of verses) Domestic Asides.
2. An indirect effort, a side effort.
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the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > an act or deed > additional or extra
by-doing1496
supplemental1643
aside1877
1877 A. Cave Doctr. Atonement The asides of many writers possess a more lasting..influence than their deliberate and darling labours.
1882 Times 23 Jan. 3 The solar energy is there directed not towards the earth, but at a right angle..and we can hardly wonder if she does not respond to these solar asides.

Compounds

† aside half adv. and prep. Obsolete (a) adv. on or to one side; (b) prep. about.
ΘΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on one side
on sideOE
aside half1398
at travers?a1400
a to-side1575
aside slips1577
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > closeness to accuracy > around, about [preposition]
abouta1398
aside halfc1425
circa1861
around1869
circiter1888
round1901
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxxv. 148 The lounge..byclippyth asyde halfe the substaunce of the herte.
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 11 Herry the firste xxxty yere, and a-sidehalfe [L. circiter] the thirde yere of his reigne.
† aside-hand adv. Obsolete
ΘΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > to the side or aside [phrase]
on sideOE
asiden-hand1440
asidec1460
aside-hand1471
over score1513
1471 Arriv. Edw. IV (1838) 18 Turned asyde-hand, and went to Bristowe.
† aside slips adv. Obsolete
ΘΠ
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on one side
on sideOE
aside half1398
at travers?a1400
a to-side1575
aside slips1577
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1333/2 He encamped somewhat asyde slippes of them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

> as lemmas

A-side
A-side n. (the music recorded on) the more important side of a single (single n. 3p). Cf. B-side at B n. 4b(f).
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > side
side1926
coupling1934
A-side1937
flip side1949
flip1960
B-side1962
1937 Down Beat Feb. 14/1 The ‘A’ side is ‘Rockin' Chair’, which was originally coupled with ‘Barnacle Bill, the Sailor’.
1942 Billboard 28 Feb. 61 The A side is a catchy melody.
1968 Guardian 5 Jan. 18/4 The seven-man band arrived at the London recording studio to make the ‘A’ side of a new ‘single’.
1984 Sounds 1 Dec. 6/5 The A-side features the inimitable talents of Jim Thirlwell on lead vocal.
2003 J. Dawson & S. Propes 45 RPM xvii. 138 The A-side is surf-rock's national anthem.
extracted from An.
—— a-side

Phrases

P1. Prepositional phrases.
a. by (also at) a person's side: (with reference to a person) next to or in close proximity to a person, and typically providing assistance, moral support, comfort, etc. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > close to a person
by a person's sidec1275
at the, one's elbow(s)1548
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > by a person's side
by a person's sidec1275
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12854 Arður eode abute & his cnihtes bi his siden [c1300 Otho side].
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 371 Til þat he kouþen..Speken and gangen, on horse riden, Knictes an sweynes bi here siden.
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 1085 (MED) I com to dwelle be þi syde.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 iii. iii. 16 Sit by my side.
1655 R. Baillie Disswasive Vindic. 62 In this unadvertency M. Marshall..has the good luck to be set at my side.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 486 To have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear. View more context for this quotation
1769 T. Gray Ode at Installation Duke of Grafton 5 With Freedom by my Side, and soft-ey'd Melancholy.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 382 Frequent in Park with lady at his side, Ambling and prattling scandal as he goes.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. viii. iv. 255 Thou shalt stand by my side while I invoke the phantom.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 46 Not at my side! I charge you ride before.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §3. 487 Buckingham..stood defiantly at his master's side as he was denounced.
1928 V. Delmar Bad Girl i. ii. 22 A dashing, derbyed youth stood proudly at her side.
1988 Woman's Day (N.Y.) Jan. 68/3 She is as tireless as her husband, working by his side.
2004 XXL Worldwide June 26/1 I got a good woman by my side and I feel revitalized.
b. by the side of.
(a) In close proximity to; next to; beside.
ΚΠ
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1442 (MED) Þe jueles out of Jerusalem..Bi þe syde of þe sale were semely arayed.
1482 W. Caxton tr. Higden's Prolicionycion i. xxvii. f. xxxviiiv In the weste Occean acquytanicus, that is the see that is by the side of guyan.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iii. f. 13v Saylinge..by the syde of Cuba..he espied..a large hauen.
1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 77v Fast by the side of thys city ranne a swift and violent riuer.
1638 A. Read Man. Anat. Body of Man (new ed.) iv. v. 488 The one [sc. artery] passeth by the side of the outward part of tibia.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 159 Our Men..shot a Brace of Deer, as they were feeding by the Side of a swamp.
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. xvii. 188 Mr R. sat by the side of the expiring fire.
1873 A. H. Leonowens Romance of Harem xx. 165 A magnificent new Buddhist temple is seen..close by the side of an ancient one.
1944 B. M. Bowen Strange Script. iv. 57 She selects two of the largest [broken pieces of pottery]: one she places by the side of the well.
2004 Trail May 44/1 This is no learned tome..—more of a compendium of brain-floss to store by the side of the loo.
(b) In comparison with.
ΚΠ
1779 E. Fay Let. 28 June in Orig. Lett. from India (1817) 44 The Buchetta, an appenine mountain, by the side of which Mont Cenis would appear contemptible.
1832 R. Cattermole Beckett 205 The..noble union of the meek and manly qualities..that characterised chivalry, and..displays it to so much advantage by the side of modern civilisation.
1909 Daily Graphic 26 July 10/1 He..made a flight of twenty-five miles across country; but that..pales into insignificance by the side of the Channel flight.
2004 I. H. Birchall Sartre against Stalinism iv. 40 Socialisme et liberté was tiny and insignificant by the side of the far more disciplined and well-organised PCF [sc. the French Communist Party] machine.
(c) In coexistence with; at the same time as; alongside.
ΚΠ
1796 G. Colman Iron Chest Pref. p. xiii Had I..look'd on the thing..by itself, why the thing is a good-natured thing; but I must be putting other circumstances by the side of it.
1814 J. Rodman tr. Comm. Code France 84 Gentlemen, The code of commerce rises by the side of the Code Napoleon.
1839 S. Laing Tour in Sweden 1838 i. 8 The canoe exists by the side of the steam vessel, barbarism by the side of civilized appearances.
1879 Academy 27 Dec. 467 [Wurtz] asserts that although antimony is usually regarded as a metal, it must, in a true chemical classification, find its place by the side of arsenic, phosphorus, and nitrogen.
1931 O. Jespersen in S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXVI. 524 By the side of the simple tenses we have in English expanded tenses, e.g.: simple: he works, he worked, he has worked; expanded: he is working, he was working, he has been working.
1988 A. V. Subramanian Aesthetics of Wonder ii. 7 A poet's mind remains today the least explored part of man's world, by the side of which the darkest Africa must be regarded as exhaustively explored and fully mapped.
2002 Glot Internat. 6 272/2 The separation into pitch accents..and boundary tones..harks back to..juncture phonemes..which existed by the side of the pitch phonemes.
c. Phrases with from and fro.
(a) from (also fro) side to side.
(i) From one lateral edge to another; across the entire width of something; right across.
ΚΠ
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 759 (MED) Their stallis..beth..With stonys paued wel from side to side.
1448 Will of Henry VI in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 354 The same Quere shal conteyne in brede from side to side within the respondes .xxxij. fete.
1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 18 Euery right lyne that passeth from side to syde in a globe, and toucheth the centre, is aptely called a diameter.
1614 Orders & Bylawes Stretham in C. L. Kingsford Two London Chrons. (1910) 271 Wee doe order and appoynt that..the now farmor..shall clense, rooke, haffe and scowre the same from side to side at the full bredth thereof.
a1674 J. Milton To C. Skinner upon his Blindness in Lett. State (1694) p. xlviii My noble task; Of which all Europe rings from side to side.
1736 J. Addison tr. Petronius Wks. 285 Within the Hut a smoaky Pole was slung, From Side to Side, 'cross which its Treasures hung.
1789 W. Wordsworth Evening Walk 165 Some..O'erwalk the slender plank from side to side.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Lady of Shalott iii, in Poems (new ed.) 15 The mirror cracked from side to side.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 54 I followed the veins several times from side to side.
1880 Brechin Advertiser 21 Sept. 3/2 [We] ca'd the road frae side to side.
1914 H. B. Smith Sheep & Wool Industry Australasia vi. 33 A cutter with three teeth running from side to side over a flat comb.
1977 Skateboard Special Sept. 5/1 For a giant slalom the cones are laid out from side to side with widely varying distances between each one.
2007 L. M. Chiappe Glorified Dinosaurs i. 24/2 The front surface of each vertebra is concave from side to side and convex from top to bottom.
(ii) Alternately left and right from a central point.
ΚΠ
1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xliii You walter peraduenture and tolter in syknes fro syde to syde.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. iv. f. 68v Yet are they [sc. branches] tossed therewith, and swaye sumwhat from syde to syde.
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iii. xi. 166 My Canvace torne, it flaps from side to side.
c1645 W. Atkins Relation of Journey (1994) 225 Wee in the cabbin were tossed like balls from side to side with reciprocall and perpetuall knocks and rebounds.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Rolling, the motion by which a ship rocks from side to side like a cradle.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 16 She doth not tack from side to side—..Withouten wind, withouten tide She steddies with upright keel.
1850 String of Pearls 102 The hackney coach swung about from side to side.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Wapper-eyed, having quick-moving restless eyes—constantly rolling from side to side, as is seen in very nervous persons.
1907 Daily Chron. 1 Feb. 8/5 Dr Bird was sitting in my chair, pivotting from side to side.
1959 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VIII. 217 The bird..waggles its head from side to side.
2012 Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 31 Aug. 6/1 The Xhosa women's hips sway gently from side to side as they carry bundles of firewood or buckets of water on their heads.
(b) from (also fro) one side to the other and variants.
(i) From one lateral edge to another; across the entire width of something; right across.
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c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 24 (MED) Þe circumferens of euery sercle is thries as mech as is þe space fro o side to an othir.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxiiiv The grate, which extended from the one syde of the bridge, euen directly to the other.
1581 W. Borough Discours Variation Cumpas vii. sig. D.ivv You must regard that you force it not from one side of the Horizon to an other, but that it rest equidistant in the same.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vi. 376 The bredth of the forehead from one side to the other.
1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 45 Having cast up the Borders..stretch a Line from one side to the other.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 294 They [sc. the Enemy] were drawn up..in one Line extended from one Side of the Field to the other.
1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I Crab..This machine differs from a capstern..in having the bars to go entirely through it, and reach from one side of the deck to the other.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xxxv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 306 He walked..From one side to the other of the road.
1889 Technic (Univ. Mich. Engin. Soc.) 5 45 These car-lines are bolted to the plates and arch over from one side to the other.
1958 C. Achebe Things fall Apart vii. 47 There were little holes from one side to the other in the upper levels of the wall.
2004 C. H. Gilliland Voy. to Thousand Cares 157 ‘Hogging’ involved cleaning the ship's bottom by looping a line under the bottom from one side to the other.
(ii) Alternately left and right from a central point.
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?1530 tr. Compost of Ptholomeus xliv. sig. q.ivv The persones whiche haue theyr iyen mouynge faste from one syde to another, and haue theyr syghte sharpe and quycke sygnyfyeth fraude, & thefte, and is of lytell truste.
1584 T. Bedingfield tr. C. Corte Art of Riding 101 An angrie horsse..that dooth wryth his head from one side to the other.
1639 G. A. Pallas Armata i. i. v. 17 If thine adversary shakes the point of his Rapier from one side to another,..make a halfe thrust at him.
1672 H. Chamberlen tr. F. Mauriceau Dis. Women with Child ii. viii. 187 It must also be observed that the Head be not drawn forth strait, but shaking it a little from one side to the other.
1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. iii. 153 He quickly lays hold of the Patient's Head with both his Hands, and..gently moves it from one Side to the other.
1790 tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. II. 371 I walked several times round it, my eyes wandering from one side to another, as if to discover my lost way.
1827 A. Jamieson Dict. Mech. Sci. I. 160/2 A man walking has a libratory motion from one side to the other.
1877 W. F. Gill Life Poe iii. 49 He..stood swaying from one side to the other.
1956 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 42 343/1 The pendulum of the clock swings from one side to the other.
2010 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 2 Mar. a1 His parents were in a fourth-floor apartment and felt the building sway from one side to the other.
(c) from all sides: from every direction; from everywhere or everyone.
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1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia iv. f. 101v The noble men resorting to Cesar from all sydes, submitted themselues..vnto hym.
1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 12 Scarce had he spoken the word, when all from all sides cryed..God saue Queene Elizabeth.
1799 W. Godwin St. Leon III. xi. 256 The..press of the crowd from all sides could alone have rendered this circumstance of any magnitude.
1894 Catholic World May 247 From all sides come the sounds of merry-making.
1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock vi. 107 My troubles came at me from all sides.
1972 T. Williams Let. 26 Aug. in Five O'Clock Angel (1991) 271 Billy is catching it from all sides—but remains cool.
2006 Guardian 30 Sept. (Guide Suppl.) 91/2 A..council official and governor of the new Kerbside Recycling scheme..is facing hostility from all sides.
†d. in (also on) other sides: in other respects. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > specifically [phrase] > in detail > in any point or particular > in other respects
in other sidesc1390
c1390 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 291 Or elles we are not disposed be clennes of lyuyng on oþur sydes forte receyue his grace.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 515 (MED) He be ful profitable in goostli maner in othere sides.
?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) i. xxxiii. f. 20v (MED) If he kepe heere in meknes and charite in oþer sydes, he schal haue ful mikil mede in heuene.
†e. of a side: on each side. Obsolete.
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. v. f. 116 They make a hole in the earth, settynge twelue trunkes of these rootes..in euery of the sayd beddes conteynynge three rootes of a syde.
1589 L. Ward in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 653 The head part [sc. of a fish] I kept, in whose nose is like a sword a bone of two foote long, with 23 prickes of a side, sharpe and strange.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 160 The Investigators of nature doe say, that they haue fifteene teeth of a side.
?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) ii. sig. D3v Old Simsons son of Showdam Thorp, that wears his great gall gaskins o'the Swash-fashion, with 8 or 10 gold laces of a side.
1701 G. Farquhar Sir Harry Wildair i. 5 The Pinners are double ruffled with twelve pleats of a side.
1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 83 Six banks of paddles, three banks of a side.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. iii. 43 His face..all lines and wrinkles, nine grey hairs of a side . View more context for this quotation
f. Phrases with on and upon. Cf. onside adv. and adj.1
(a)
†(i) on side: on or to one side; aside. Cf. aside adv. Obsolete.In quot. 1489: alongside a person; = aside adv. 11.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > to the side or aside [phrase]
on sideOE
asiden-hand1440
asidec1460
aside-hand1471
over score1513
the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > alongside [phrase] > on one side
on sideOE
aside half1398
at travers?a1400
a to-side1575
aside slips1577
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > changing direction of movement [phrase] > aside from course
on sideOE
OE Riddle 21 13 Fealleþ on sidan þæt ic toþum tere.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 102 (MED) Þe ealleofte hwelp is ifed..wið semblanz & wið sines, as beoren on heh þet heaued..lokin o siden [c1390 Vernon a syden; L. ex laterre], bihalden on hokere, winche mid ehe.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xvii. l. 57 (MED) Feith had first siȝte of hym, ac he flegh on syde.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 199 This stone..Remove and sette on syde.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 111 Thai saw on syde thre men cumand.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) vii. 60 He ran on sid [1487 St. John's Cambr. on fut] alwayis him by.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 191 On syde scho lukit wyth ane fremyt fare.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clxxxvij This battayl was sore foughten, for hope of life was set on side on euery parte.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 350/2 What shall it auaile vs to start on side from the rule which hee hath giuen vs?
1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 28 Weil saw he with this king micht na man byde Bot thay that wald al sadnes set on syde.
1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. iii. ix. 112 You may all expect great Spoyl and Riches from this Enterprize, and therefore let all Fear and Cowardize be set on side.
1782 J. Price Let. to E. Burke 65 This last was the person whom the mayors court set on side as insufficient from debility of body and mind to conduct his own affairs.
†(ii) on side half: on or to one side; apart. Cf. aside half adv. and prep. at aside adv., prep., adj., and n. Compounds. Obsolete.
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the world > space > distance > distance or farness > a long way off [phrase] > to or at a distance apart
on (also by, upon) rooma1325
on side halfc1430
c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 263 (MED) Oure lord Jesu came and aperede to hir..gretynge hir on side half in thise wordes.
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Acts xxiii. 19 The tribune tuke his hand, and yede with him on side halue [Purvey asidis half] and askit him [etc.].
(b) on all sides, on each side (also †in each side), on every side, and variants: in or from all directions, quarters, or parties concerned; all around; everywhere.
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the world > space > place > here, there, etc. > [phrase] > everywhere > on all sides
on all sidesc1275
on all handsc1540
on every handc1540
right and left1822
left and right1824
right, left, and centre1852
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 312 His ferde he sette on ælchere siden[c1300 Otho echere side].
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1963) l. 7007 Þo were Peutes ouer-come and swiþe hii awey floȝe on euereche side.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 969 On euerich a side, On him was leyd al þe pride.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 392 Tobroke is Cristes folde, Wherof the flock..Devoured is on every side.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 365 On evyrysyde, undique, circumquaque.
a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 2896 Wepyng & sorwyng in yche a syde.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xiv. sig. p.iiiiv Counnyng surgeans were sought vpon euery syde.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Lj A synew concaued on eche syde.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 178 A most pleasant valley, compassed on all sides with mountaines.
1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 22 On each side bowing popularly low.
1684 J. Browne Adenochoiradelogia ii. iv. 47 In the Womb this inequality of Nutriment is much amended by an equal heat, the Womb equally in each side embracing and cherishing the Body of the Embryo.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 110. ¶2 The Ruins of the Abby are scattered up and down on every Side.
1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. vii. 44 The clouds broke on the surrounding mountains, and the torrents streamed into the plain on every side.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert viii, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I. 249 Thanks to Heaven were returned on all sides.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 202 On every side, Oxford is redolent of age and authority.
1898 J. L. Weston tr. Sir Gawain & Green Knight 28 He..came into a thick forest, wild and drear; on each side were high hills, and thick woods below them.
1928 Cent. Mag. Aug. 465/2 Radio sets flood the market, beauty parlors spring up on every side.
1992 Economist 11 July 13/1 On every side, it seems, the cry is for action, vision and a change of course.
2007 J. Carew Flowers of Forest xii. 82 Now it seemed as if someone had declared a public holiday; there were smiles on all sides.
(c) on the other side and variants: see other side n. 1.
†(d) upon the side of: with regard to (something). Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > in relation to [phrase] > in respect of or with regard to
in wise ofc1290
by (also for) reason ofa1350
as to (the) regard ofc1392
in regard of or toc1392
upon the side ofa1393
with regard toc1392
in respect of?a1425
in this (also that) behalf1458
upon the feat of1483
for (the) respect of1489
as pertains to1526
in order to1526
with respect1556
ad idem1574
on this behalf1581
in or with reference to1593
quoad hoc1601
in point of1605
with intuition to (of)1626
in the mention of1638
in terms of1704
how and about1753
as regards1797
as concerns1816
w.r.t.1956
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 1503 Mi fader, upon loue [emended in ed. to loves] side Mi conscience I woll noght hyde.
(e) on this side of and variants. Also with noun complement without of. In later use frequently with ellipsis of on.
(i) Before (a specified date, time, event, etc.).
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > in advance or beforehand > in advance of > that time or a specific date
there-toforna1400
on this side of1436
then-tofore1629
1436 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 198 in Parl. Papers 1906 (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 He that calleth hym Duc of Burgeyne disposyth hym..on this side Estre nyxt to lay assege to oure toun of Caleys.
1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §8. m. 36 The seid .x.th part to be assessed..a this syde the morn of the fest of the Purification of Oure Lady.
1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII c. 12 The seales aboue rehersed, shall bee made..on this syde the feast of the Natiuitie of sayncte John Baptist nexte commynge.
1557 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1950) 45 17 To provid a handbell at thissyd Alhallon.
1602 in East Anglian (1863) 1 341 As to the glasing the p'son and inh'itants..are admonished to repaire the same on this side the first daie of Januarie next.
1672 T. Manley Clerks Guide 413 If the estate of the premisses be not effectually conveyed him..on this side the last day of, &c. next coming, [etc.].
1771 Hist. Sir William Harrington IV. ci. 253 But all, I fear, won't be completed on this side Christmas.
1826 Lit. Souvenir 104 Come not within sight of Luke Malmsey, and Malmsey Manor, on this side doomsday—think upon that now!
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xxvii. 335 He's not at home, and won't be this side of eleven o'clock.
1902 Dun's Rev. (N.Y.) 4 Oct. 4/1 Many cannot promise deliveries this side December.
1915 Chatterbox 15 July 343/1 There is hardly time to go anywhere this side of dinner-time.
2007 Times (Nexis) 9 Oct. 44 Any deal was unlikely to be completed this side of Christmas.
(ii) Not fully attaining or amounting to (a specified state or condition); short of. †on this side nothing: almost entirely insignificant; (in quot. 1667) not completely annihilated (obsolete).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > less than
on this side ofc1449
short of or from1560
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 78 The other is openest in suerte of likelihode or of probabilite a this side suerte.
1621 B. Jonson Masque of Augures sig. A2 A prettie man! and a prettie man is a little o' this side nothing.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems Pref. sig. B3 [He] hath attempted bravely, but yet methinks on this side of Mathematicall evidence.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 101 If our substance be indeed Divine, And cannot cease to be, we are at worst On this side nothing . View more context for this quotation
1672 J. V. Canes Τω Kαθολικω Stillingfleeton ii. 16 The whole treatise in Bellarmin seems to him now at this his distance, but as..an atome, a little on this side nothing; and therefore not worth speaking of.
1833 C. Lamb Ellistoniana in Last Ess. Elia (1838) 34 My first introduction to E., which afterwards ripened into an acquaintance a little on this side of intimacy, was over a counter in the Leamington Spa Library.
1863 A. Campbell Pop. Lect. & Addr. viii. 197 He lived and died on this side of the science of psychomancy. He did not consult the souls of the dead, but only the souls of the living.
1916 E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box 141 He was, as the slang phrase has it, ‘oiled’; which is a condition of alcoholic comfort well on this side of inebriety.
1963 N. Arvin Longfellow 319 Among the younger literary generation..the prevalent attitude was well this side of idolatry.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 7 Apr. 33/1 Those who earn a living from writing..try to stay on this side of outright tartiness.
(f) on (the) one side and variants. (Cf. to one side at Phrases 1h.)
(i) In one or other direction leaning away from the vertical or horizontal.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 585/1 I hylde, I leane on the one syde, as a bote or shyp or any other vessell.
1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia ii. i. sig. C3 His armes incross'd, his head downe on one side.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 19 To me comes a creature, Sometimes her head on one side, some another. View more context for this quotation
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 335 The vessel reeling quite down on one side..was immediately filled with water.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋1 Alexander the Great had a wry neck, which made it the fashion in his court to carry their heads on one side.
1766 Museum Rusticum 6 374 As to the width of the gates,..the men..could..easily incline the roller on one side, and..wriggle it in.
1834 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 18 Nov. 4/4 It rose at once half a mile in a perpendicular direction, the car leaning so much on one side, that his ballast and a bottle of wine and his hat were thrown out.
1868 C. J. Lever Bramleighs I. x. 137 His lordship now placed his hat on his head, slightly on one side.
1949 W. Havighurst Signature of Time 9 Jimmy with his rabbity white hair, his head cocked on one side, his toothy grin.
1984 W. Diehl Hooligans (1985) 63 The calliope music started, but the merry-go-round was destroyed, tilted on one side like a bloody beret.
2003 R. Liddle Too Beautiful for You (2004) 188 He just smiles at me slightly, his head on one side.
(ii) Used to introduce a point of view, fact, case, etc., followed by another which contrasts with it, usually introduced by on the other (side); = on (the) one hand at hand n. Phrases 1i(e). Cf. on the other side at other side n. 1.
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a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 47 We may..a the one syde to stretly juge..the hole mater..orels of the other syde [etc.].
1668 W. Charleton Ephesian Matron (new ed.) 3 in Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons Notwithstanding the importunities of her Parents and Friends on one side, and the necessities of Nature on the other, urging her to commiserate and relieve her self.
1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. II. 67 As on the one side, Reason discovers it to be fit, that Man should be Immortal; so on the other side [etc.].
1773 S. Neville Diary 3 Apr. (1950) ix. 200 On one side the advantage..of increasing my knowledge in Medicine.
1818 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 901 For myself, I cannot agree wholly either with Sir S. Romilly on the one side, or with the Paleyians on the other.
1887 T. Fowler Princ. Morals ii. v. 189 The conflict is between a feeling of sociality..on the one side, and a man's self-respect..on the other.
1901 Times 30 Aug. 5/2 She is as far, on the one side, from being cryptogrammatical as she is, on the other, from a bald insistence upon her points.
1996 W. A. Kort Take, Read 120 Calvin opposed both the subjection of Bible reading to the church, on the one side, and the rejection of the ‘dead letter’ of texts for an immediate relation to God claimed by spiritualists, on the other.
(iii) Out of the way; aside; spec. in a separate place, to be dealt with or considered later; out of account or consideration. Cf. to one side at Phrases 1h(b).
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1585 R. P. tr. D. Ortúñez de Calahorra Second Pt. First Bk. Myrrour of Knighthood i. f. 3v The Emperour foreseeing that perillous blowe, with great lightnesse cleered himselfe from the furie thereof by leaping on the one side, so that the Boars Speare stroke in the grounde.
1699 tr. de La Vauguion Compl. Body Chirurg. Operations xxiv. 205 If the Membranes are not broken, the Artist must put a little on one side that part of the Burthen which presents, and break the Membranes with his Fingers.
1776 London Mag. Feb. 87/2 The king..pushed it [sc. a petition] on one side.
1820 P. B. Shelley Œdipus Tyrannus ii. 42 Your Majesty In such a filthy business had better Stand on one side.
1880 Bp. Fraser in Manch. Guardian 25 Nov. The Agnostic neither denied nor affirmed God. He simply put Him on one side.
1912 A. W. Hodson Trekking Great Thirst 39 There were a few makatane amongst them, which we put carefully on one side for ourselves.
1960 Times 9 Dec. 14/5 All the detailed arguments..could be put on one side.
2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 131 Carefully tip the buttermilk out of the jar, keeping it on one side if you wish to use it in another recipe.
(iv) to take (a person) on one side and variants: to engage (a person) in a private conversation, esp. in order to warn or admonish him or her. Cf. to take (a person) to one side at Phrases 1h(c).
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1585 R. P. tr. D. Ortúñez de Calahorra Second Pt. First Bk. Myrrour of Knighthood lviii. f. 229v Fidelia..went vnto the king, and taking him on the one side somwhat a part, she sayd: Soueraigne Lord, [etc.].
1639 H. Peacham Merry Disc. Meum & Tuum 13 Tuum..calls her on the one side, and tells her in private, that he..could not chuse but informe against the smalnesse of his Bread.
1791 Scots Mag. July 342/1 M. de Damas went to the man who rode first, drew him on one side, and conversed with him in a very low voice.
1892 Catholic World Aug. 684 ‘At last, Dolores!’ he exclaimed. And leading me on one side he poured forth into my ear the tale I so longed to hear.
1918 Lake Park (Iowa) News 2 May ‘What's the matter with you, Mazerouz?’ asked the deputy chief, taking him on one side.
2013 D. Pendleton Rebel Blast vii. 72 Keep your voice down or else those goons will take you on one side and give you shit now.
(g) With modifying adjective. on the —— side of (a specified age): older, or younger, than (a specified age).See also right side n. 7b, on the wrong side of at wrong adj. 10e, on the sunny side of at sunny side n. and adj. Phrases 1, on the shady side of at shady adj. 2b.
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1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. i. 2 I attribute this Costivenesse..to his yeares, being on the worse side of forty.
1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding v. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 140 She is smitten in years o'th wrong side of forty.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 42 She's on the wrong Side of Thirty, if she be a Day.
1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain ii. 228 Get it [sc. information] from a French officer, or a priest, provided they are on the wrong side of forty... Avoid all acquaintance with either, on the right side of thirty.
1794 J. Collard Life James Molesworth Hobart I. 12 A gentleman, who, though on the worst side of sixty, had..become enamoured of a beautiful young damsel of twenty years of age.
1807 Salmagundi 20 Mar. 108 The younger being somewhat on the shady side of thirty.
1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vac. Tourists & Trav. 1860 24 A priest on the podgy side of forty.
1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 8 She was on the less enviable side of fifty.
1917 R. Cullum Triumph John Kars i. 10 He was a young man, a shade on the better side of thirty-five.
1989 O. S. Card Prentice Alvin xv. 199 Miss Larner seemed to be on the greying side of forty.
2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Mar. c3/1 Ms. Shepard and Mr. Wetherall,..it is safe to say, are both on the northern side of 50.
(h) With modifying adjective. on the —— side: with a tendency towards the specified quality, condition, or aspect (originally one of two opposing qualities, conditions, etc.). Now esp. in to be on the —— side: to tend towards being ——; to be rather ——.Recorded earliest in to err on the —— side at err v. Additions. See also on the safe side at safe adj. Phrases 13, on the sure side at sure adj., adv., and int. Phrases 5c, right side n. 6.
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1657 W. London Catal. Most Vendible Bks. Eng. Introd. sig. C4 If I doe err, sure it's on the better side, for that it's a Rule given in Politicks, rather to speak well, then ill, of things or persons.
1719 J. Leng Nat. Obligations x. 317 I cannot see how we could reasonably advise a wise man to act otherwise than on the safe side.
1803 G. Colman John Bull i. i. 7 Its prophecying on the sure side for to tell a thing when it has happened.
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. iv. 78 Determining to be on the safe side, he made his apology in form as soon as he could say anything. View more context for this quotation
1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xi. 90 He is just a shade too good... But it's a fault on the right side.
1896 W. Park Game of Golf ii. 37 The grip..should not be too thick, neither should it be too thin, but of the two it is better to be on the thin side.
1913 E. M. Forster Let. 1 Jan. in Hill of Devi (1953) 24 Her dress was on the negligée side, but she had not been intending to receive.
1932 News Chron. 28 May 4/4 It must be pointed out that prices are on the high side.
1974 A. Morice Killing with Kindness ii. 14 He was a bit on the tired side, but..he's accustomed to long hours.
2004 Essentials Dec. 123 (advt.) To find out if the meat is cooked, insert a skewer—if the juices are red or pink it is on the rare side.
(i) Originally U.S. to get (also be, keep, etc.) on the good side of a person: to gain a person's favour; (also) to be, remain, etc., in a person's favour; = to get (also stay, etc.) (on) the right side of someone at right side n. 7a. Similarly to get (also be, etc.) on the wrong (also bad) side of a person: to fall or be out of favour with a person.
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1843 ‘M. Tensas’ Odd Leaves from Louisiana ‘Swamp Doctor’ 71 I had letters of introduction for the old chap; and I thought I'd deliver them early, and get on his good side.
1888 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 13 Oct. 4/5 No boy who wants to keep on her good side should ever speak disrespectfully of the tariff.
1896 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 345/1 I reckon he's somebody they think they better be on the good side of.
1935 W. S. Maugham Don Fernando xi. 233 He got on the wrong side of most of the people he had to do with and was forced to resign.
1971 B. Head Maru i. 92 They were on his bad side and..life was not worth living if you were on the bad side of Maru.
1994 J. Welter Night of Avenging Blowfish 182 ‘Don't get on my bad side, Doyle.’ ‘It's too late to avoid that side.’
1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo i. 16 ‘Little Plum, your Redskin Chum,’ a corner boy might quip as herself and the butcher passed on the street, but sotto voce, for you didn't get on the wrong side of Magee.
2003 G. Joseph Big Smoke x. 103 He's..looking for a leg-up. He'll do anything to get on my good side.
(j) on the side of the angels.
(i) Supporting the theory of the divine creation of humankind as opposed to the theory of evolution.In later use with reference to quot. 1864.
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1864 B. Disraeli Church Policy 26 Is man an ape or an angel?.. I am on the side of the angels.
1979 ‘C. Aird’ Some die Eloquent vii. 99 He had always in any case been on the side of the angels anyway. Apes were less appealing.
2002 M. Shermer In Darwin's Shadow ix. 233 Mivart firmly placed himself ‘on the side of the angels’ when it came to the human soul and intellect, which he felt could only be accounted for by supernatural infusion.
(ii) Supporting, or acting in accordance with, principles regarded as good or right (sometimes spec. at the risk of unpopularity); on the right side; morally upright, virtuous.
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society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > on the side of right [phrase]
on the side of the angels1894
1894 Musical Times 1 Mar. 169/2 Even when his [sc. Von Bülow's] humour was most outrageous it was nine times out of ten on the side of the angels.
1926 Punch 22 Dec. 700/1 Miss Marguerite Williams..is so firmly posted on the side of the angels that I can forgive her if she occasionally seems rather to force the note.
1956 G. H. Vallins Pattern of Eng. vii. 171 ‘Different from’ reminds the reader that whatever other men have done.., Fowler himself is on the side of the angels.
2001 F. Popcorn & A. Hanft Dict. Future 134 Some [corporations]..exaggerate their green credentials to mislead consumers into thinking they are on the side of the angels.
(k) Originally U.S. on the side.
(i) In addition to and served separately from the main part of a meal or course; as a side dish.
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the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [adverb] > served in specific way
hot and hot1710
on the side1883
1883 Denver Republican 14 Dec. 5/5 ‘Gimme that snake rare—milk gravy on the side,’ was hallooed to the cook.
1916 Literary Digest 18 Mar. 766/3 ‘Beef stew and a cup of tea for me,’ the new arrival said. ‘Bossy in a bowl—boiled leaves on the side,’ sang the waiter.
1975 D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 95 A club sandwich with french fries on the side.
1988 S. H. Loomis Great Amer. Seafood Cookbk. vi. 159 Serve the remaining stuffing on the side.
2012 Church Times 23 Nov. (Books for Christmas Suppl.) p. xvi/2 Beef meatballs with broad beans and lemon,..and potato latkes on the side.
(ii) In addition to one's main job or business activity; as a supplementary source of income; as a sideline.Occasionally with implication of irregularity; cf. Phrases 1f(k)(iii).
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society > occupation and work > [adverb] > as a subsidiary occupation
on the side1891
society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adverb] > as subsidiary source of income
on the side1891
1891 Winnipeg Free Press 21 Feb. Then there is the Major, who sometime ago was willing to become a scullion in the governor's kitchen—a nice job on the side for a newspaper man.
1898 N.Y. Jrnl. 26 Aug. 9/3 Samuel..started an ice cream parlor, with cigars, tobacco and delicatessen on the side.
1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh iv. 107 ‘I'm not asking you to be a valet and nothing else.’ ‘You would want me to do some cooking and plain sewing on the side, perhaps?’
1977 Navy News Dec. 1/3 We do not have information about how many people do jobs on the side, but I suspect that that practice is not confined to the Armed Forces.
2010 New Yorker 15 Mar. 24/3 A thirty-year-old attorney who constructs puzzles on the side.
(iii) In addition to a main activity, course of action, etc.; spec. in a clandestine or surreptitious way; secretly; illicitly.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > [adverb]
softlyc1225
by stalea1240
privilya1250
slylyc1275
thieflyc1290
stealingly13..
by stealth1390
stalworthlya1400
theftfullyc1400
theftlyc1400
theftuouslyc1400
under veilc1425
thievishly?c1450
by theft1488
quietly1488
furtively1490
by surreption1526
hugger-muggera1529
in hugger-mugger1529
underhand1538
insidiously1545
creepingly1548
surreptiously1573
underboard1582
filchingly1583
sneakingly1598
underwater1600
slipperily1603
thief-likea1625
clandestinely1632
surreptitiously1643
thievously1658
clancularly1699
stownlins1786
stealthily1806
underhandedly1806
stolen-wise1813
on (upon, under, or by) the sly1818
round-the-corner1820
underhanded1823
stealthfully1828
slinkingly1830
slippingly1830
on the sneak?1863
sneakishly1867
behind backs1874
stalkingly1891
on the side1893
under the counter1926
underground1935
under the table1938
down and dirty1959
sneakily1966
1893 Congress. Rec. 18 Dec. 360/1 He will have no pension attorney, for a silent partner, no relative doing business ‘on the side’ with that bureau.
1904 N.Y. Times 22 June 3 To attend the big fair and receive the entertainment of St. Louis on the side.
1937 D. L. Sayers Zeal of thy House ii. 44 Pocketing commissions and that sort of thing? Doing little deals on the side?
1995 J. Cameron Vinnie got blown Away 108 Anyone you know bought a new video? Course not, too dear. Everyone knew some geezer get one on the side.
2010 Observer 17 Jan. (Escape section) 7/4 A holiday with a bit of volunteering on the side.
(iv) With reference to a sexual partner or relationship: in addition to one's spouse or partner; outside of one's marriage or romantic relationship.bit on the side: see bit on the side n. b at bit n.2 and adj.2 Phrases 1h.
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1926 A. H. Frederick You've never lived in Hollywood 20 Now B.F. was well satisfied His wife should be thus occupied With the young man from France, For it gave him a chance To play round a bit on the side—Yes, more than a bit on the side.
1927 P. MacDonald Patrol xiii. 140 Queer 'ow folks looks at this goin' on the side. I wouldn't do it at 'ome, o' course.
1968 R. L. Hudson Grace is not Blue-eyed Blond xi. 145 What would some of you say if I told you that I, as a married man, have had three women on the side?
1977 Gay News 24 Mar. 14/4 They may..gear their expectations to include sexual contacts on the side.
1993 J. Green It: Sex since Sixties 32 We'd sneak into public lavatories—this was on the side, I was married—jack up our heroin and then screw up against the wall.
2013 Daily Tel. 27 Nov. 28/7 The realisation your other half has been selfishly having some on the side is a shocking betrayal.
(l) on the wrong side of history: at variance with the (likely) thought, practice, or judgement of the future; at odds with how commentators view (or are likely to view) an issue or action retrospectively. Similarly on the (right) side of history: in line with (likely) thought, practice or judgement of the future; coincident with the way in which commentators view (or are likely to view) an issue or action retrospectively.
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1912 Evening Democrat (Fort Madison, Iowa) 17 Oct. 8/3 Slanderers of Roosevelt and progressiveism will find themselves later on the wrong side of history.
1946 Amendm. Social Security Act: Hearings before Comm. Ways & Means (U.S. House of Representatives, 79th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 1 vii. 822 Perhaps the greatest satisfaction, as we look back upon our lives would be to know that we were on the right side and not on the wrong side of history.
1961 S. Monas in tr. M. Zoshchenko Scenes from Bathhouse (1962) p. ix When an employee..has her hand burned by the poker, the old peasant shows himself surprisingly on the side of history and suggests to the manager of the establishment a rationalization of his work.
2013 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 9 Apr. a15 When she denounced Nelson Mandela's liberation movement as a ‘typical terrorist organization’ and rejected calls for sanctions.., Margaret Thatcher found herself on the wrong side of history.
†g. through the sides of, through a person's sides: by means of (one person or thing) so as to harm another indirectly. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [adverb]
sidelya1425
through the sides of?1560
collaterally1610
by the waya1616
sidewise1654
secretly1656
slantinglya1677
ambagiously1678
circuitously1797
sideways1876
in-circle1883
?1560 T. Norton Orations of Arsanes sig. C.iij He woundeth our common weale indirectly through the sides of our neyghbours.
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. iv. 164 Bellarmine thinkes that master Caluin (whom this pamphleter woundeth through the Puritans sides) is wrongfully challenged in this point.
1684 J. Bunyan Holy Life in Wks. (1855) II. 527 There are many that..watch for an opportunity to speak against him, even through the sides of those that profess him.
1699 M. Henry Life P. Henry in C. Wordsworth Eccl. Biogr. (1818) VI. 268 That the name of God..be not blasphemed, nor religion wounded through their sides.
1742 Politicks in Miniature 4 Witness ye Gods! that through my Sides they strike at You.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1768 I. 305 About this time Dr. Kenrick attacked him, through my sides, in a pamphlet.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod Introd. §33 The other party, who..were not sparing in their severity, but wounded the ordinance itself through the sides of its defender.
1840 Rev. Managem. Affairs China 5 They had inflicted many a wound upon us through the sides of the Company, which served as a breakwater between our wrath and their insolence.
h. to one (also the, †a) side. Cf. on (the) one side at Phrases 1f(f).
(a) In one or other direction leaning away from the vertical or horizontal. Also in figurative contexts.
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1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 316 Inclining it now to one side, now to an other, gather all the drops together that cleue vnto the sides.
?1574 T. Hill Contempl. Myst. f. 66v Seneca nameth it an inclynation, in that the earth leaneth to one side, like a ship.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 159 He..shall live in this world uprightly and in even ballance, without enclining more to one side, than unto another.
1650 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata §538 Beginning to totter and reel (swerve and lean to a side) it [sc. a house] must needs be shored up with some arch.
1701 Candidates Try'd 4 Them who are against having the Constitution alter'd, and the Balance incline so much to one side.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Parliament-heel, the situation of a ship, when she is made to stoop a little to one side.
1782 Monro's Anat. Human Bones (new ed.) 126 From each side..a bony bridge is produced backwards, and to a side.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) App. 715 An immediate pleurosthotonos, or bending of the body to one side.
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 55 May Mischief seemed to incline her ear, tipping it a little to the side to listen.
1955 A. Atkinson Exit Charlie (1957) iv. 136 His black hat was very slightly tilted to one side.
2010 D. Hewson Blue Demon ii. v. 145 He adopted a pose—fingers tented, head to one side—that appeared very much that of an indignant academic.
(b) Out of the way; aside; spec. in a separate place, to be dealt with or considered later; out of account or consideration.
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1601 tr. M. Martínez 9th Pt. Mirrour of Knight-hood xvi. sig. X4v For leaping a little to one side, the horse mist to runne vpon him, hee giuing a gallant blow.
a1688 J. Bunyan Israel's Hope Encouraged in Wks. (1855) I. 600 It would be too great a step to a side to treat of all those mercies.
1750 G. Neale tr. Mem. Royal Acad. Surg. Paris II. xxi. 541/1 If it [sc. the stone] is small, we push it to one side with the fingers, while we extract it from the other.
1786 C. Varlo Essence Agric. xxxi. 143 The boards being loose are quickly thrown to one side.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxii. 333 ‘Keep to a side,’ cried Tommy Staytape, ‘for..Moosey'll maybe hae a pistol.’
1887 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 64 It must..be understood that I place his private character entirely to one side.
1963 Negro Digest Jan. 73/2 Russell came out then and stood over to the side while the others crowded around to shake my hands.
1988 B. W. Aldiss Forgotten Life iv. 101 George pushed his plate to one side and sipped his wine.
2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 50/2 A place where class differences are temporarily put to one side and everyone wears flip-flops and vest.
(c) to take (a person) to one side and variants: to engage (a person) in a private conversation, esp. in order to warn or admonish him or her. Cf. to take (a person) on one side at Phrases 1f(f)(iv).
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1634 G. Baker tr. A. Paré Apol. in T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxix. 1166 The Prince.., drew me to one side, and askt me if the wound was mortall.
1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxxvii. 356 He took me to one side, and privately told me all his design.
1799 W. Wennington tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine Man of Nature xlvii. 434 Russell took him to one side. ‘Hear me, my dearest William!’
1880 Testimony relating to Election 1st & 2nd Districts Ohio 154 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (46th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 23) II He was called to one side and informed that there was a lot of Kentucky fellows about the polls.
1917 Blacksmiths Jrnl. Mar. 26/2 It was with a sad and sorryful heart that I led Van to one side and explained things.
2010 A. J. Mackinnon Well at World's End i. 88 Maggie took me to one side and gave me another of her stern sisterly talkings-to.
P2. Noun phrases.
side of bone n. either of the two series of baleen sheets in the mouth of a (baleen) whale.
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1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 456 Each series, or ‘side of bone’, as the whalefishers term it, consists of upwards of 300 laminæ.
1866 J. E. Gray Catal. Seals & Whales Brit. Mus. (ed. 2) 75 The fins or whalebones of each series together are called a ‘side of bone’; the largest are in the middle, whence they gradually diminish away to nothing at each extremity.
1918 Chambers's Jrnl. 8 552/2 One ‘side’ of bone is brought up at a time, and the heaving on board of this enormous mass evokes the keenest interest.
2001 H. Rossiter Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer ii. 49 The two sides of bone were removed from the mouth and hung in the rigging.
2005 Jrnl. Mammol. 86 343/1 A rack or side of baleen consists of all the baleen laminae from either the right or left side of the mouth still embedded in the gum.]
† side of work n. Coal Mining Obsolete a rectangular working or panel (panel n.1 8b).
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > compartment of coal-mine
side of work1820
panel1839
1820 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) XIV. 355/2 As the sides of work were extended, a certain degree of pressure came upon the work.
1854 Mining Mag. 2 7 From the thickness of the seam, and the height of the stalls in the sides of work, or chambers, in which this coal is wrought, fire-damp accumulates near the roof.
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 136 From this latter the main workings, called sides of work, are opened in the form of a square or parallelogram.
1906 T. H. Cockin Elem. Class-bk. Pract. Coal-mining (ed. 2) xiv. 172 Each side of work is enclosed by a barrier of coal 10 yards thick. The inside dimensions of a side of work are about 46 yards by 64 yards.
1921 F. H. Wilson Coal vii. 29 The seam is cut out into sides of work.
P3. Phrases with this, other, both, etc.Prepositional phrases with this, other, both, etc., are treated at Phrases 1.
a. colloquial. (on) this (also the other, etc.) side of the water (also pond, puddle , etc.): in one of two countries or regions divided by a sea or ocean. Later esp.: (with reference to the Atlantic Ocean) North America as regarded by Western Europe, esp. Britain, and vice versa. Also elliptical, as this side (see also other side n. 4b).
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [adverb] > on one or other side of Atlantic
(on) this (also the other, etc.) side of the water (also pond, puddle , etc.)1529
1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 20 Ther is now ane fair to be hald on that vther syd of the walter, that is to say in Sanct Monanis.
1689 in Harl. Misc. (1746) VIII. 603/1 My sometime Friends and Allies on the other Side of the Herring-pond.
1720 Mrs. Bradshaw in Countess of Suffolk Lett. (1824) I. 69 You..do not give one the least account how things go on your side of the water.
1784 J. Read Let. 6 Aug. in G. Washington Papers (1992) Confederation Ser. II. 25 The Inclosed Copy of a Letter..will perhaps give you some..Curious information..on the subject of Pollitics on the other side of the Water.
1841 Kendall's Expositor 1 199/2 As soon as he reached the other side of the pond, Uncle Sam compelled him to measure off and give him one-fifth or twenty per cent. of the balance.
1870 Centennial Celebration of Rutgers College 22 Many people on this side, of conservative turn, thought a man could not preach the gospel properly unless he came with the imprimatur of the Classis of Amsterdam.
1914 Rotarian Dec. 10 Many of the ‘stunts’ that appeal to an American will simply bring the movement into ridicule on this side.
1978 SLR Camera Aug. 21/1 For many years the American company..have made fine enlarging frames (masking frames this side of the puddle).
1993 Irish Times (Nexis) 10 June 13 Its account of Irish women's experience in London has been ignored and dismissed on both sides of the water as anecdotal.
2010 Financial Times 5 June 14 (headline) US earnings good news for this side of the pond.
b. the other side of the hill and variants.
(a) The latter part of life; old or middle age. Cf. over the hill at hill n. 1e.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun]
eld971
old agec1330
agec1380
last agea1382
oldc1385
aldereldea1400
winterc1425
vilessec1430
annosityc1450
senectute1481
the black ox1546
golden years1559
years1561
great1587
afterlife1589
setting sun1597
antiquity1600
chair-daysa1616
the vale of yearsa1616
grandevity1623
green old age1634
eldship1647
senioritya1688
the other side of the hill1691
the decline of life1711
senectude1756
senility1791
senectitude1796
post-climacteric1826
Anno Domini1885
senium1911
golden age1946
1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers 17 Tho she is declining, she is but a little on the other side of the Hill, and looks well and lusty.
1898 J. Paton Castlebraes iii. 68 The tender and true affection that leads them on and on, down the other side of Life's Hill.
1957 C. Smith Case of Torches i. 5 I had to go through a lot of badinage..about..how old I was getting and what it was like on the other side of the hill.
2005 Independent 17 Aug. (Features section) 34 At 54 years old, Seymour shows that the other side of the hill need not be so bad.
(b) Those aspects of a situation which are unknown at present; (Military) the enemy position or activities.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [noun] > instance of
terra incognita1616
indeterminable1646
X1808
unknown1829
incognita1846
the other side of the hill1852
terra ignotaa1925
another country1952
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > enemy position or activities
the other side of the hill1960
1852 Duke of Wellington in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxviii. 275 We amused ourselves by guessing what sort of a country we should find at the other side of the hills we drove up... When I expressed surprise at some extraordinary good guesses he [sc. Croker] had made, he said, ‘Why, I have spent all my life in trying to guess what was at the other side of the hill.’
1888 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Nov. 690/2 When that trustee made the kindly mistake of becoming a trustee at all, could he have conjectured what was on ‘the other side of the hill?’
1926 C. B. Waterlow in H. Golding Wonder Bk. of Motors 12 It is not only what is on the other side of the hill that matters, but everything along the road.
1960 G. Martelli Agent Extraordinary 15 I..wish..to express my gratitude..to [the]..technical director of the flying bomb sites..for allowing me a glimpse of the ‘other side of the hill’.
1978 Times 30 Jan. 13/2 Mr Peyton..began to argue for a revalued green pound... He..correctly read what was on the other side of the hill (that is, the Government itself would soon have to revalue).
1981 Ld. Chalfont in B. Netanyāhû Internat. Terrorism (1989) 81 In any military operation, accurate intelligence—the ability to see what is ‘on the other side of the hill’—is of crucial importance. Without it commanders are blind.
2006 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 5 Apr. I've always been attracted by the unknown. I've always wanted to see what lies on the other side of that hill.
c. With reference to a coin.
(a) two sides of the same coin and variants: two things, processes, etc., which are closely related or interdependent even though they seem different; two different aspects of the same situation or phenomenon.
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1879 Puck (N.Y.) 13 Aug. 363/1 Laughter and tears are but the reverse sides of the same coin.
1923 Amer. Hist. Rev. 28 455 It was necessary to be knighted to be a chevalier, to be a noble. Nobility and knighthood were two sides of the same coin.
1966 Listener 19 May 713/1 The social and psychological pressures are not different things but often just different sides of the same penny.
2005 Time Out N.Y. 25 Apr. 167/2 Book of Love poignantly reminds us that tragedy and personal growth are two sides of the same coin.
†(b) to know both sides of a penny: to be experienced in the ways of the world; ‘to know what's what.’ Obsolete. rare.
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1899 W. Raymond No Soul above Money i. iii. 58 He knew both sides of a penny, for all he looked so daft.
(c) the other side of the coin (also penny, etc.): a thing or person which provides a contrast with another; esp. a contrasting aspect of a situation; an alternative account, point of view, etc.; cf. the reverse of the medal at medal n. 4.See also the other side of the shield at shield n. 1d.
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1904 W. B. Yeats Let. 20 Jan. (1994) III. 528 ‘The Shadowy Waters’..[is] more a ritual than a human story... ‘Cuchullain’ or ‘The King's Threshold’ are the other side of the halfpenny.
1904 W. B. Yeats Let. Apr. (1994) III. 576 I am reckless in mere speach that is not written. You are the other side of the penny for you are admirably careful in speach.
1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 June 398/4 The other side of the coin is, of course, the doubt whether Linda could indeed be happy..to return to her Alps.
1975 M. Russell Murder by Mile ix. 92 Angus Hamilton's..to address members and answer questions. He thought it might present an opportunity to put across the other side of the coin.
2005 Publican 27 June 20/2 The other side of the coin is that the closeness of the relationship can also bring out the parties' differences.
P4. to take (also †hold) sides, to take a side, and variants: to support one person, group, cause, etc., against another in a conflict or debate. Frequently with with. Also to take a person's side, to take the side of: to support (a particular person, group, etc.) in a conflict or debate.
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society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > side with [verb (transitive)]
to take (a) part witha1470
to hold sides1490
to take the part ofc1500
partake1546
follow1548
side1585
party1587
part1669
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (transitive)] > take someone's side or side with
favoura1375
to stand with ——1384
takec1400
to take (a) part witha1470
to hold sides1490
to take the part ofc1500
to stick with ——1523
partake1546
follow1548
to join issue1551
to make with ——1559
favourize1585
side1585
party1587
to take in1597
part1669
to fall in1709
to take for ——1770
to take up for1824
range1874
society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > join or form a party or take sides [verb (intransitive)]
to stand in1555
to fall ina1568
partialize1592
side1609
party1656
to take (also hold) sides1700
(to be) on a person's, the other side of the fence1852
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > support or encourage [verb (intransitive)] > take someone's part
party1586
seconda1609
to take sides1719
(to be) on a person's, the other side of the fence1852
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 238 Nevertheles he came, and helde syde wyth his broder.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 829/2 Through the discord of the messengers and captaines, taking sides one against ye other, they made their enemies stronge & infeabled themselues.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xli. sig. G11 Hee loues not deeper mutualities, because he would not take sides.
1649 J. Ricraft Civill Warres (new ed.) v. 29 Upon the eruption of the civil war, he took the side of the parliament, but afterward attached himself to the king.
1663 Crimes & Treasons A. Johnston 9 Warreston was the only fit man resolved on to prosecute the Cabel, and to hold sides with the Remonstrants.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 70 The nicest Eye cou'd no Distinction make, Where lay the Advantage, or what Side to take.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 290 He would take my Side to the last Drop of his Blood.
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. xvi. 258 The Beaux, and Belles, and Witlings..soon began to take Sides in the Dispute, 'till at length it became one universal Scene of Wrangle.
1823 J. Keble Serm. (1848) ii. 38 Careful always to take the safe side in practice.
1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 398 Weak-minded people who cannot take sides with a persecuted truth.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xi. 317 Every resident of mark found himself in a measure compelled to take a side.
1942 National Geographic Mag. June 696/2 Sandalwood drew many adventurous ship captains to the island; whites took sides with native chiefs in fierce internecine warfare.
1985 D. Lucie Hard Feelings ii. iii, in Progress & Hard Feelings 80/1 You sat on the fence when you could have taken my side.
1997 R. Bennett Catastrophist (1999) 177 How can you be from Ireland and not take a side?
2013 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Nov. 55/1 I had to take sides about this deep issue of moral theory.
P5. Scottish. side for side: close together and facing or moving in the same direction; also figurative; = side by side adv. 1. Now rare.
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1529 in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (1849) 2 63 (note) Their plouche is drawen be foure beastis going syde for syde.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. clxxxviii. 463 That proud thing, myself, will not play, except it ride up side for side with Christ.
1663 (?a1500) Pleasant Hist. Roswall & Lillian sig. A4v Side for side, hand for hand rode they.
a1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) iv. 78 In the year 1680 the Lightning enter'd a Gentlemans Cow-stall, where were twelve Cows standing side for side, as they used to be, and killed every other one.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. III. 427/2 To keep one's foot side for side with that of another.
1832 A. Cunningham Let. 27 Oct. in W. Chambers Mem. R. Chambers (1872) x. 219 Scottish tastes and feelings seemed to go side for side with my own.
1987 B. Holton tr. S. Nai'an Men o the Mossflow ii, in Sc. Corpus Texts & Speech Side for side the twa gaed doun on their knees.
P6. to split (also break, burst, etc.) one's sides and variants: to be convulsed with laughter; to laugh heartily or uncontrollably. Also to split a person's sides and variants: to cause a person to go into convulsions of laughter.In quot. 1598 perhaps with allusion to sense 4.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > laugh convulsively or immoderately
chuckle1598
to split (also break, burst, etc.) one's sides1598
to die with, or of laughing1609
to hold one's sides1609
to laugh till (also until) one cries1611
split1688
to burst one's sides1712
shake1729
to shake one's sides1736
to laugh oneself sick (also silly)1773
roll1819
to laugh one's head off1871
to break up1895
to fall about1918
pee1946
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H3 O I am great with mirth, some midwifrie, Or I shall breake my sides at vanitie.
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 108 Laugh & spare not So't be in priuate, burst thy sides with laughter.
1660 J. Bellamy tr. Origen Against Celsus ii. xxxi. 150 The pretended Jew goes on, and is ready to split his Sides with Laughing, at the Earth-quake.
1704 T. Brown Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. 230 You'd break a Man's sides with Laughing.
1705 C. Cibber Careless Husband iii. 35 Seeing us ready to split our sides in laughing at nothing, ha! ha!
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iii. 13 You would have burst your sides to hear him talk Politicks.
1821 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. xvi. 379 A fashionable Miss titters till she is ready to burst her sides at the uncouth shape of a bonnet.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. li. 83 Tom Scott..bade fair to split his sides with laughing.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 62 Break your neck and we'll break our sides.
1925 Princeton Alumni Weekly 18 Feb. 450/1 Unbelievable and original surprises are being prepared to delight your hearts and split your sides.
1953 J. M. Brewer Word on Brazos 66 Dey gonna..crack dey sides laffin' when..de ghostes staa'ts to comin' in.
2014 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 27 June 11 The viewing millions..who simply want to split their sides at the sight of a man in drag falling over and showing his knickers.
P7. Sport (chiefly British). —— a-side (with preceding numeral, as eleven-a-side, fifteen-a-side, etc.).See also five-a-side adv., seven-a-side adv.
a. As an adverb: with the specified number of players on each team.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective] > types of
maiden1598
well-run1601
unequal1654
well contested1722
returned1758
friendly1780
close-run1813
foursome1814
lightweight1823
tight1828
side1829
one-sided1839
scratch1851
international1859
all-comers1860
scrub1867
pointless1876
scoreless1885
replayed1886
peg-down1887
all-star1889
stiff1890
varsity1891
postseason1893
knock-out1896
best-of-(a specified odd number)1897
seeded1901
junior varsity1902
Simon Pure1905
pegged-down1908
JV1923
zero-sum1944
tie-breaking1970
1829 Sheffield Independent 24 Oct. To make a full match, eleven a-side, for any sum which may be proposed.
1918 G. M. Knocker Let. 15 Feb. in Diary & Lett. World War I Fighter Pilot (2008) 149 This afternoon there are going to be inter-flight soccer games, 6-a-side, 10 minutes each way.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 June 484/2 It is now over a century since it [sc. shinty] was played, seventy-five or so a-side.
2001 T. Melville Early Baseball & Rise of National League i. 12 This club insisting on only playing ‘old style’ baseball, eleven-a-side, with only two innings per game.
b. As an adjective: designating a match, type of sport, etc., played with the specified number of players on each team. Cf five-a-side adj.
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1865 Bell's Life in London 2 Dec. 7/6 Sixth Form V the School—This the great eleven a side match of the season came off on Nov 10.
1900 Sc. Sport 13 Apr. 6/1 Melrose..will tomorrow resound with a Babel of tongues..eager and excited over the first of the Border seven-a-side tournaments.
1901 R. H. Lyttelton Out-door Games ii. 52 The playground where I first learned the elements of eleven-a-side cricket was more like a hayfield than a cricket ground.
1973 J. M. White Garden Game 104 We do sanction two-a-side encounters from time to time, or even three-a-side.
1992 Rugby World & Post Mar. 60/3 The Australians have decided to concentrate on sevens with the same singlemindedness that won them the 15-a-side title last year.
c. As a noun: a game or match with the specified number of players on each team.See also five-a-side n., seven-a-side n.
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1883 Evening News 28 Apr. 1/6 Barnes is behind Mr. G. P. Studd in all matches, but he did manage to occasionally make 20 in the eleven-a-sides.
1933 Scotsman 3 Apr. 14/5 The Berwick High School Girls Six-a-Sides.
1968 M. MacPherson New Tenants i/ 8 Sandy came puffing back exclaiming, ‘We could play four-a-sides.’
1996 J. Murray Reiver Blues 80 Frequently their family three-a-sides lasted ten hours or more.
2015 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 29 Sept. 20 There are little four-a-side kickabouts for tots, seven-a-sides for up to 11-year-olds, then full 11-a-sides for all the teenage years.
P8. Originally and chiefly British. to play for the side and variants: to play a sport in such a way as to help one's team win, without aiming at personal distinction; (in extended use) to put the interests of one's team or group above one's personal interests.Chiefly associated with British public schools.
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1882 Marlburian 1 Mar. 30/2 The School play though individually good was far too selfish; we must remember to play for our side not for ourselves.
1898 E. W. Howson & G. T. Warner Harrow School xxii. 239 That golden maxim, ‘Cricketers should play for their side, and not always be thinking about their averages, and individual performances.’
1916 Times 9 June 11/3 They played for the side; they gave up their own amusements for the good of the regiment.
1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 102 A year, when, to a conspicuous degree, all played for the side.
1933 G. Heyer Why shoot Butler? vi. 86 The Public School Spirit, and Playing for the Side, and all that wash.
2005 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. The theme within the Indian team is to play for the side and not worry about individual performances.
P9. on the wrong side of the blanket, on the right side of the blanket: see blanket n. and adj. Phrases 2. to know on which side one's bread is buttered, bread buttered on both sides: see bread n. Phrases 4. on the other side of the fence: see fence n. 5c. to laugh on the other side of one's face: see laugh v. Phrases 1g. to have the laugh on one's side: see laugh n. Phrases 2a. to let the side down: see to let down 2 at let v.1 Phrasal verbs. the other side of the shield: see shield n. 1d. short back and sides: see short adj., n., and adv. Compounds 6a. to play both sides of the street, to work both sides of the street: see street n. and adj. Phrases 9. sunny side up: see sunny side n. and adj.. a thorn in the side: see thorn n. 2. a walk on the wild side: see walk n.1 Phrases 6. to get out of bed on the wrong side: see wrong adj. 10g.
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