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单词 on the contrary
释义

on the contrary

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It's the opposite, as in Is his shoulder hurting?—On the contrary, it's all better, or We thought you didn't like opera.—On the contrary, I love it. This phrase, at first put as by or for or in the contrary, dates from the late 1300s; on has been used since the mid-1800s.

Words nearby on the contrary

on the button, on the carpet, on the chance that, on the cheap, on the chin, on the contrary, on the cuff, on the defensive, on the dot, on the double, on the edge
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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