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English
Etymology
Probably short for "move to one side", that is to one side of a passageway.
Pronunciation
Noun
one side
- (idiomatic) A place where things are stored or reserved, as in:
He put next year's reserved seed on one side.
He put some money to one side.
Interjection
one side
- (idiomatic) A direct, somewhat impolite demand to ask someone to move out of the way.
- 1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, March 1946 republication as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 45:
- sign hung from the bronze knob, and it stated without equivocation that the Britannic Museum was "closed for repairs."
- But the Inspector was made of stern stuff. He closed his right hand and with the resulting fist pounded formidably on the bronze.
- out popped the gargoylish head of a bulb-nosed old man.
- "Hey!" snapped this apparition. "Can't you read English?"
- "One side, brother," said the Inspector cheerfully. "We're in a hurry."
- The doorman did not budge
1952, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Make Mine Mars:“This is no time for sympathy,” I said. “Now one side or flipper off — I gotta go to work.”
1957, J. D. Salinger, Zooey:"I'm late now, Fatty. C'mon. One side," Zooey said. A Philadelphia highboy had been moved out into the hall, and, together with Mrs. Glass's person, it blocked Zooey's passage.
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