know/see where sb is coming from
If you say to someone you know or see where they are coming from, you mean you understand why that person has a particular opinion, often although you do not have that opinion:
I would've taken the dog to the vet, but I could see where they were coming from.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realization
- realize
- take sth in
- twig
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