on the side
C2 in addition to your main job:
He makes a little money on the side by cleaning windows in his spare time.
secretly:
I think he has another woman on the side (= a relationship with a woman who is not his wife).
mainly US (of food in a restaurant) served on another plate, or on the side of the plate :
I'd like a salad with the dressing on the side (= with the dressing served separately from the salad), please.
I'll have a omelette with fries on the side, please.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Also, extra, and in addition
- added
- additional
- again
- along
- also
- case
- excess
- for good measure idiom
- for luck idiom
- furthermore
- hand
- have sth in hand idiom
- say
- second 1
- thirdly
- to boot idiom
- to cap it all idiom
- to say nothing of ... idiom
- together
- yet
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