up to a point

Idioms  

1. To some extent, somewhat, as in I can work weekends up to a point, but after a month or so I get tired of it. This phrase uses point in the sense of “a definite position.” [Early 1800s]

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Example Sentences

"It's the same techniques and up to a point it's the same industry as well," sums up Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School in New York.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

I’ve been a professor at a state university for almost 30 years, and I am sympathetic up to a point.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

Most investors think of diversification in terms of holding dozens of individual stocks, and they’re right, up to a point.

From MarketWatch • May 30, 2026

The law suggests that mental performance improves with stimulation only up to a point.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

If intelligence matters only up to a point, then past that point, other things—things that have nothing to do with intelligence—must start to matter more.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell