turn the scale
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Weightless, they turn the scale when the argument is: What happened here?
From Time ● Nov. 29, 2
I must not think too much of this, or I may be tempted; a good cause might turn the scale with me, for may not I too be of an exceptional brain, congenitally?
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
But this was not sufficient to turn the scale.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
The outward advantages of the two courses to be chosen seemed tolerably equal; his convictions of right must turn the scale, and did so.
From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
For this is a situation which will ripen almost without assistance, resembling as it does a balance already trembling, in which the addition of a single hair will turn the scale.
From A Syrup of the Bees by Anonymous
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