much to be said
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English
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[edit]- Used to assert the defensibility or advisability of what follows.
- There is much to be said for a policy of caution.
- 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian[1]:
- The British empire had much to be said for it, but it is over – dead, deceased, struck off, no more.
- 1999, Gillian Brock, “The new nationalisms”, in Monist, volume 82, number 3, page 367:
- Why not think of oneself as simply thrown together with fellow citizens or conationals in the same sort of random way as a group of people might be thrown together in a life-boat? There is much to be said in favor of such a story.