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on one's account

Idioms  

  1. see on account; on one's own account.

Example Sentences

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A failure would have been in better taste; it would have shown at least some imagination, some anxiety on one's account.

From A Thief in the Night Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

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