It was a sort of ally on my side against the utilitarian plainness of my guest.
For Balthasar, feeling that she was about to leave, was rubbing his side against her leg.
The man moved his head so that it lay on one side against the chair-back.
At present, the colonists had reason on their side against Pencroft.
Sizing it up, one side against the other, I conclude that it is better for me not to drink.
And has there been a rising on the Border side against the English pock puddings?
For once, the soldiers were on their side against the hated Italians of the mainland.
I swear to aid you, to take your side against my countrymen; for they cast me out.
Certainly he did not err on the side against which his mother had cautioned him.
For these no particular skill is required; it is one side against the other.
Old English side "flanks of a person, the long part or aspect of anything," from Proto-Germanic *sithon (cf. Old Saxon sida, Old Norse siða, Danish side, Swedish sida, Middle Dutch side, Dutch zidje, Old High German sita, German Seite), from adjective *sithas "long" (cf. Old English sid "long, broad, spacious," Old Norse siðr "long, hanging down"), from PIE root *se- "long, late" (see soiree).
Original sense preserved in countryside. Figurative sense of "position or attitude of a person or set of persons in relation to another" (cf. choosing sides) first recorded mid-13c. Meaning "one of the parties in a transaction" is from late 14c.; sense in a sporting contest or game is from 1690s. Meaning "music on one side of a phonograph record" is first attested 1936. Phrase side by side "close together and abreast" is recorded from c.1200. Side-splitting "affecting with compulsive laughter" is attested by 1825.
late 14c., from side (n.).
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Related Terms
on the side, stateside, sunny side up, topside, the wrong side of the tracks