on the other hand
- 1Used to present a contrasting point of view or consideration that balances against something already said.
Like a debate where one speaker answers the point another has just raised.
The proposal would cut costs significantly; on the other hand, it risks lowering the product's quality.
Working from home saves commuting time. On the other hand, it can blur the line between work and rest.
Note
Half of a paired frame: the phrase often answers an earlier "on the one hand," setting two sides of one question in balance. In careful prose the second half can drop its noun, as when James Clerk Maxwell in 1873 writes "on the one hand to dynamics, and on the other to heat, light." Used alone, it simply turns an argument, usually after a semicolon or at the start of a new sentence.
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