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on someone's side
Idioms and Phrases
In support of someone's views or interests, as in I'm glad you're on my side in this debate , or With the Canadians on our side, we should be able to persuade the Mexicans of a North American policy . [1300s]Example Sentences
And considering that the goal of a campaign ad is to get voters on someone’s side, “their harassment of me might have the opposite effect of turning some voters off.”
When he is on someone’s side, there is no more relentless ally.
I sort of supported her, but at the same time, it was all up to Stephen, so it was hard to be on someone’s side.
In the townships, they were seen as neutrals, when a black photographer would have been assumed to be on someone's side -- the ANC or the Zulus -- and at night they went home to drink in upscale bars and sleep in comfortable suburbs.
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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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