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on account of
Idioms and Phrases
Owing to, because of the fact that, as in We canceled the beach picnic on account of the bad weather forecast . This idiom was first recorded in 1936.Example Sentences
County are seriously considering moving on account of the fires, and more than 7 in 10 are happy with their own neighborhoods.
JarrÃn blamed himself for not speaking English as well as he’d like on account of his career and talking only Spanish at home so his sons could be bilingual — “I sacrificed my knowledge†for them, he claimed.
Growth has flagged on account of slower consumption.
Department of Building and Safety filed a code enforcement violation against Polizzi in 2017 on account of the tree house lacking building permits.
More to the point, she has become emotionally overwrought, and prone to making bad decisions, on account of her dog being lost, and then found — murdered.
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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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