on one hand
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3.2
- idiom
:
por un lado
- On one hand, studying abroad can be an exciting opportunity, but on the other hand, it can be quite expensive.
- On one hand, they emphasized
- attitudes on one hand
Now that's on one hand potentially bad for margin.
- Now that's on one hand potentially bad for margin.
- It feels recent on one hand, but it's quite a while ago.
- And so you're going to see economists on one hand say everything's great.
- And so on one hand, yes, he's achieved all these things.
- Because real estate on one hand, to your point, is safer.
- So on one hand people say, well, what he did wasn't illegal.
- So I have compassion for that on one hand.
- They, they become on one hand more human and on the other hand less human.
- But on one hand we push for more health protective policies.
- Yes, I, I think that what we're going to see is on one hand increasing levels of efficacy.
- But it, it, on one hand, it really gave me the confidence to do a crowdfunder.
- And I'm just curious what thoughts you think that will have on the world on one hand, but then also consciousness and understanding of it.
- And very acutely, on one hand, these changes may lead to enhancing learning and memory.
- For example, we can be holding the idea of evolution on one hand and then believe in creation on the other hand.
Examples
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Both one's own qualifications and motivations, on the one hand, and connections on the other, are widely considered important for economic success.
Academic text (1999) -
On the one hand, it provided a solid material basis for academic exchange and cooperation
Academic text (1999) -
They, they become on one hand more human and on the other hand less human.
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And on one hand, I understand like we, you want to have public order.
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On the one hand, I had nothing at stake in the outcome of the strike.
Academic text (1993) -
But on one hand we push for more health protective policies.
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On the one hand, this is a valid point.
Academic text (2011) -
The gap between Johnson's rhetoric and promises on the one hand and his performance on the other was even greater.
Academic text (1991) -
On the one hand, you've got the people with all their money and glitz.
Fiction book (1993) -
I felt, on the one hand, exhilarated by my spontaneous movements, but they were, on the other, quite unfamiliar.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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3.6
To introduce one of two contrasting points in a discussion
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'on' + 'one' + 'hand' to mean 'from one side' or 'from one point of view', and this compositional reading is reinforced by the paired contrastive pattern 'on the other hand'. As a common discourse marker with a predictable 'side/viewpoint' sense of 'hand', a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
On one hand creates a simple picture of holding one idea in one hand and a different idea in the other. So when you say on one hand, you give 'one view' or fact that you will compare with 'the other hand'.