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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, sequence) From one point of view.
   • 1950, Bertrand Russell, acceptance speech for Nobel Prize in Literature I maintain, however, on the one hand, that there are few occasions upon which large bodies of men, such as politics is concerned with, can rise above selfishness, while, on the other hand, there are a very great many circumstances in which populations will fall below selfishness, if selfishness is interpreted as enlightened self-interest.
   • On the one hand, it was quite a good bargain, but on the other hand, do we really need a second car?
   • The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other. 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:

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on the gripping hand · on the other hand

Translations (35)

fi yhtäältä (from one point of view) · pt por um lado (from one point of view) · fr d'un côté (from one point of view) · ro pe de-o parte (from one point of view) · sv å ena sidan (from one point of view) · cmn 一方面 (from one point of view) · sh u jednu ruku (from one point of view) · it da un lato (from one point of view) · el αφενός (from one point of view) · sh s jedne strane (from one point of view) · ga ar thaobh amháin (from one point of view) · ka ერთი მხრივ (from one point of view) · is annars vegar (from one point of view) · ca d'una banda (from one point of view) · da på den ene side (from one point of view) · eo de unu flanko (from one point of view) · cmn 一來 /一来 (from one point of view) · es por un lado (from one point of view) · uk з одно́го бо́ку (from one point of view) · bg от една́ страна́ (from one point of view) · de einerseits (from one point of view) · lt viena vertus (from one point of view) · sh с једне стране (from one point of view) · gd air an dàrna làimh (from one point of view) · ja 一方 (from one point of view) · de zum einen (from one point of view) · nl enerzijds (from one point of view) · eo unuflanke (from one point of view) · lt iš vienos pusės (from one point of view) · ru с одно́й стороны́ (from one point of view) · pl z jednej strony (from one point of view) · fa از یک سو (from one point of view) · hu egyrészt (from one point of view) · udm огласянь (from one point of view) · sh у једну руку (from one point of view)