on the one hand

on the one hand

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Prepositional phrase

on the one hand

1. (sequence, idiomatic) From one point of view.

   On the one hand, it was quite a good bargain, but, on the other hand, do we really need one?

   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎:

     The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.

Coordinate terms

• on the other hand
• on the gripping hand (fanspeak slang)

Translations

from one point of view

Catalan: d'una banda Chinese: Mandarin: 一方 (zh) (yīfāng), 一方面 (zh) (yī fāngmiàn) Danish: på den ene side Dutch: enerzijds (nl) Esperanto: unuflanke Finnish: yhtäältä French: d'un côté German: zum einen, einerseits (de), einesteils Italian: da un lato Japanese: 一方 (いっぽう, ippō)

Lithuanian: viena vertus, iš vienos pusės Persian: از یک سو‎ (az yek su) Portuguese: por um lado Russian: с одно́й стороны́ (ru) m (s odnój storoný) Scottish Gaelic: air an dàrna làimh Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: с једне стране, у једну руку Roman: s jedne strane, u jednu ruku Spanish: por un lado Swedish: å ena sidan (sv)

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