All 5 Uses of
on the other hand
in
Bleak House
- On the other hand, the Right Honourable William Buffy, M.P., contends across the table with some one else that the shipwreck of the country—about which there is no doubt; it is only the manner of it that is in question—is attributable to Cuffy.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- On the other hand, you can't admit but what it's natural in us to be anxious with such a thing hanging over our heads.†
Chpt 34-36
- …by Lord Coodle's making the timely discovery that if in the heat of debate he had said that he scorned and despised the whole ignoble career of Sir Thomas Doodle, he had merely meant to say that party differences should never induce him to withhold from it the tribute of his warmest admiration; while it as opportunely turned out, on the other hand, that Sir Thomas Doodle had in his own bosom expressly booked Lord Coodle to go down to posterity as the mirror of virtue and honour.†
Chpt 40-42
- We knew full well that her fervent heart was as full of affection and gratitude towards her cousin John as it had ever been, and we acquitted Richard of laying any injunctions upon her to stay away; but we knew on the other hand that she felt it a part of her duty to him to be sparing of her visits at our house.†
Chpt 58-60
- Whereas it so falls out, on the other hand, that I am able to be of some trifle of use to Sir Leicester Dedlock since his illness— brought on by family sorrows—and that he would rather have that help from our mother's son than from anybody else."†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(on the other hand) from another point of view; or in a way that is different (a phrase used to introduce a different perspective or idea)