on-side

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on-side (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of onside
    • 2009, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Borne in Blood: A Novel of the Count Saint-Germain, →ISBN:
      We turn on-side shortly, do we not? And the road descends?
    • 2012, Tony Bradman, Football Fever 3, →ISBN:
      They'd be screaming for offside and she'd say calmly, 'He couldn't have been. The number six put him on-side.'
    • 2013, Alan Rae, Hands on Hearts: A Physio's Tale, →ISBN, page 59:
      'The Chairy', Wallace Mercer, desperate to keep the fans on-side, signed Dundee United's Iain Ferguson.
    • 2014 -, Stan Mason, Revengement, →ISBN:
      'Tell me,' she went on tiredly trying another tack. 'Did you hit her with the on-side or off-side wing?'

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