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side against
Idioms and Phrases
Refuse to support, oppose in a dispute, as in The older club members sided against the new program director and her strenuous exercise programs . [First half of 1700s] For the antonym, see side with .Example Sentences
“Whether this is a war or there’s an invasion is going to be subject to litigation, and there is good law on the side against the president on this,” said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.
On her Patreon, the writer Ella Dawson wrote about being captivated by Baldoni’s TED talk and taking his side against Blake Lively in her initial social media posts, then feeling sickened when she realized, after reading about the smear campaign Baldoni had orchestrated against Lively, that she may have been mistaken about the man she’d admired.
His 11 goals in seven Scotland appearances during 1963 - as well as scoring for a Rest of the World side against England at Wembley - went some way to helping him receive the 1964 Ballon d'Or, which at the time was the prize awarded to the best footballer in Europe.
As Hegseth showed in salvaging his nomination in December, they rally on-the-fence Republicans to his side against the common enemy of villainous left-wing media.
They intervened on his side against rebel groups that ranged from the jihadist extremists of Islamic State to militias supported by the US and the rich Gulf monarchies.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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