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Idioms and Phrases
Also, as to . With regard to, concerning. For example, As for dessert, I'd better skip it today and We are not sure as to how to pay the bill . A particularly well-known use of this idiom is in Patrick Henry's speech before the Virginia Convention in 1775: “As for me, give me liberty or give me death.” Also see as to .Example Sentences
As for Trump’s order, she said she isn’t worried.
As for how I’m feeling, anticipating the end of everything I’ve valued my entire life about this great country — the Constitution, mostly-civil discourse, a public ethos of decency to other human beings no matter how short we fall of our ideals in practice, political processes built on something other than violence, real-if-grudging progress on racial and other forms of discrimination and injustice, America as both a concept and a reality – doesn’t make its actual disappearance any better.
In other words, there was indeed a “civil war” in Vietnam, but it was not one that pitted northerners against southerners, as, for the most part, our American Civil War did.
As for human cases, "in the U.S., there has been almost no reporting of new cases," virologist Angela Rasmussen told Salon.
As for tennis, Boneta believes he wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the sport.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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