on the one hand
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3.6
- idiom
:
por un lado
- On the one hand, the new policy will help reduce pollution; on the other hand, it may increase costs for businesses.
- On the one hand, conflict
- On the one hand, voice
- On the one hand, human rights
So on the one hand, it's it's an amazing success.
- So on the one hand, it's it's an amazing success.
- And it's also with the what the United States does with it, with this situation, because on the one hand you have Israel, long time allies and partners.
- Aristotle makes this important distinction between anger, on the one hand, and hatred.
- So on the one hand, every human that has ever lived died or will die.
- So drinking on the one hand represses reason, but also increases anger.
- So, so on the one hand, we've generated a number that's not on the list that is supposedly undefinable.
- So I guess on the one hand, yes, the distrust in institutions would make a an actual pandemic, if such a thing happened, nightmarish.
- And so, yeah, I mean, yeah, on the one hand, you are like, you're optimising for survival over, you know, prestige or status.
Examples
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On the one hand, lower family support at pretreatment predicted better reading and math outcomes.
Academic text (2015) -
On the one hand, the open-access mission of community colleges is a cornerstone mission for these institutions.
Academic text (2012) -
So on the one hand, it's it's an amazing success.
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You have, on the one hand, AI as part of the engineering department.
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So on the one hand we have representation.
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One can, on the one hand, ask the world to conform to what you want.
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Popular participation is organically related to questions of human needs on the one hand and human rights on the other.
Academic text (1990) -
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) -
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, Van Dyck's Sebastian paintings declare the young painter's commitment to life study.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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3.2
Used to show one idea that you will compare with another
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's sense of presenting a single viewpoint can be partly inferred from 'one' (a single) + 'hand' used metaphorically as 'side' or 'viewpoint', and 'on' marking that perspective. However, it is a conventionalized discourse marker whose fixed phrasing and idiomatic use in contrastive pairs (on the one hand ... on the other hand) means B1 learners may not fully predict its register and function from the constituents alone.
Etymology
On the one hand comes from the simple image of holding one idea in your left hand and a different idea in your right. One hand shows 'this' and the other shows 'that', so the phrase is used to say 'one side' of a choice or comparison.