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take sides
Idioms and Phrases
Also, take someone's side . Support or favor one party in a dispute, as in Parents shouldn't take sides in their children's quarrels , or Thanks for taking my side concerning the agenda . [c. 1700] Also see take someone's part .Example Sentences
Silver didn’t mention James or Smith by name and didn’t take sides but did acknowledge “I particularly feel protective of our players.”
For decades, China has been careful not to take sides in conflicts in Africa, to avoid causing problems that might interfere with its extensive commercial interests.
One author considers why our brains take sides and how they can switch sides too.
You clearly come from the “Don’t ever take sides against the family” school, whereas I come from the “It’s not personal, it’s strictly business” one.
Such a fight can only demobilize the GOP base as people take sides in this increasingly ugly fight.
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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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