on the one hand

idiom

variants or on one hand

—used to introduce a statement that is followed by another contrasting statement which is typically introduced with on the other hand

On the one hand, I think the price is fair, but on the other hand, I really can't afford to spend that much money.

On one hand, there is the historical, real person—George Washington the President—but on the other hand, there is the legendary person—George Washington the cherry-tree chopper.

—Anthony Hollingsworth

Examples of on the one hand in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This confrontation becomes much more interesting when it is incarnated by on the one hand, the patriarchy, and on the other hand, the defiance, the resistance, the integrity of these incredible young women of the new generation in Iran. —Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024

The two worlds of his corpus, then, ought not to be understood as an absolute and necessary dichotomy between the sensory and the body, on the one hand, and the spiritual and moral, on the other. —Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024

This means two things - on the one hand, each of us can take proactive steps to assess and address our personal brain fitness. —Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024

The run-up to California’s November 2024 election is a battle between, on the one hand, grassroots activists and businesses who are desperate to stop the onslaught of new taxes and, on the other hand, public-sector unions ... —Edward Ring, National Review, 11 Oct. 2024