ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS Definition & Meaning

on the side of the angels

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Idioms and Phrases

Supporting the good side, as in Whatever you may think of him, on important issues he's usually on the side of the angels . This expression was coined by Benjamin Disraeli in 1864 in a speech about Darwin's theory that man is descended from apes: “The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.” Before long it was extended to broader use, specifically to the moral view.

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“But like the saying goes, you want to be on the side of the angels.”

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Gabriel rightly comes down on the side of the angels: For the author, Madonna has worked hard to stake a claim to her own kind of feminism, a performer who regards sex as a source of strength rather than exploitative shame.

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“They see this as spiritual warfare, and Trump is on the side of the angels,” Fea said.

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Hunter Biden wanted to see the role as consistent with U.S. policy, telling one friend in an email that “helping out a domestic Ukrainian gas producer as a bulwark against Russian aggression seemed like I was on the side of the angels.”

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If it is a generational battle, and I believe it is ultimately, that we were going through in the ’60s and that we’re going through now, being a young person is being on the side of the angels because it’s really trying to deal with the impossible embargoes on thought that exist in a culture.

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