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Lexicographical Neighbors of

on the carpet
on the cheap
on the clock
on the coattails
on the come
on the contrary
on the cuff
on the cutting room floor
on the defensive
on the dot
on the double
on the down-low
on the edge of one's seat
on the face of
on the face of it
on the far side (current term)
on the fence
on the fence(p)
on the fly
on the fritz
on the front foot
on the go
on the go(p)
on the ground
on the half hour
on the heels of
on the hoof
on the hook
on the hook(p)

Literary usage of

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"The Major-General commanding now directed me to withdraw my force back across Mountain Run, leaving a picket force on the far side. I directed two companies ..."

2. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghosa, Eugene Watson Burlingame (1921)
"Now if I die on the near side, those who dwell on the far side will quarrel with their brethren over the question who are to have my relics. ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"Id be on the far side from the earth, and all that we sec of her would lie n bulging hemisphere, comparatively much less dense and weighty ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1877)
"... waters on the far side of her, and thus, the water being left behind, a tide is produced on this Bide, as well as on the side at which the force of ..."

5. Skating by John Moyer Heathcote, C. G. Tebbutt, T. Maxwell Witham, Henry A. Buck, John Kerr, Ormond Hake (1892)
"128): and the term ' off pass' implies that the skater shall go past the centre on the far side some little way before taking another stroke (see fig. 130). ..."

6. With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West, 1852-1868 by R. H. Williams, E. W. Williams (1908)
"Presently the Germans, having recovered from their surprise and got their arms, fired a volley at our comrades on the far side, but without much execution ..."

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