29 PHRASE If you put something to one side or put it on one side , you temporarily ignore it in order to concentrate on something else. □ In order to maintain profit margins, health and safety regulations are often put to one side.
30 PHRASE If you take someone to one side or draw them to one side , you speak to them privately, usually in order to give them advice or a warning. □ He took Sabrina to one side and told her about the safe.
31 PHRASE If you take sides or take someone's side in an argument or war, you support one of the sides against the other. □ We cannot take sides in a civil war.
32 to look on the bright side → see bright
33 the other side of the coin → see coin
34 to err on the side of something → see err
35 to be on the safe side → see safe
36 someone's side of the story → see story
side|arm /sa I dɑː r m/ (sidearms ) N‑COUNT [usu pl] Sidearms are weapons, usually small guns, that you can wear on a belt. □ Two guards with sidearms patrolled the wall.
side|bar /sa I dbɑː r / (sidebars )
1 N‑COUNT A sidebar is a short article that is placed beside a longer one in a newspaper or on a website, and provides other relevant information.
2 N‑COUNT A sidebar is an additional or less important thing. □ A small sidebar exhibition showcases some of the best of these works.
side|board /sa I dbɔː r d/ (sideboards )
1 N‑COUNT A sideboard is a long cupboard which is about the same height as a table. Sideboards are usually kept in dining rooms to put plates and glasses in.
2 N‑PLURAL Sideboards are the same as sideburns . [BRIT ]
side|burns /sa I dbɜː r nz/ N‑PLURAL If a man has sideburns , he has a strip of hair growing down the side of each cheek. □ …a young man with long sideburns.
side|car /sa I dkɑː r / (sidecars ) N‑COUNT A sidecar is a kind of box with wheels which you can attach to the side of a motorcycle so that you can carry a passenger in it.
-sided /-sa I d I d/
1 COMB [usu ADJ n] -sided combines with numbers or adjectives to describe how many sides something has, or what kind of sides something has. □ …a three-sided pyramid. □ We drove up a steep-sided valley.
2 → see also one-sided
si de dish (side dishes ) N‑COUNT A side dish is an amount of a particular food that is served at the same time as the main dish. □ These mushrooms would make a delicious side dish.
si de-effect (side-effects ) also side effect
1 N‑COUNT [usu pl] The side-effects of a drug are the effects, usually bad ones, that the drug has on you in addition to its function of curing illness or pain. □ The treatment has some unpleasant side-effects including skin rashes and headaches. □ Most patients suffer no side-effects.
2 N‑COUNT A side-effect of a situation is something unplanned and usually unpleasant that happens in addition to the main effects of that situation. □ [+ of ] One side effect of modern life is stress.
si de-foot (side-foots , side-footing , side-footed ) also sidefoot VERB In football, if a player side-foots the ball, they kick it with the side of their foot. [BRIT , JOURNALISM ] □ [V n] Currie sidefooted his first goal of the season. [Also V ] ● N‑COUNT [usu sing] Side-foot is also a noun. □ Anthony scored with a simple side-foot.
si de is|sue (side issues ) N‑COUNT A side issue is an issue or subject that is not considered to be as important as the main one. □ I must forget these side issues and remember my mission.
side|kick /sa I dk I k/ (sidekicks ) N‑COUNT [oft poss N ] Someone's sidekick is a person who accompanies them and helps them, and who you consider to be less intelligent or less important than the other person. [INFORMAL ] □ His sons, brother and nephews were his armed sidekicks.
side|light /sa I dla I t/ (sidelights )
1 N‑COUNT The sidelights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width. [BRIT ] in AM, usually use parking lights 2 N‑COUNT The sidelights on a vehicle are lights on its sides. [AM ]
3 N‑COUNT A sidelight on a particular situation is a piece of information about that situation which is interesting but which is not particularly important. □ [+ on ] The book is full of amusing sidelights on his family background.
side|line /sa I dla I n/ (sidelines , sidelining , sidelined )
1 N‑COUNT A sideline is something that you do in addition to your main job in order to earn extra money. □ Charlie sold second-hand cars from the arches at Brighton station and trained horses as a sideline.
2 N‑PLURAL The sidelines are the lines marking the long sides of the playing area, for example on a football field or tennis court.
3 N‑PLURAL [usu on/from N ] If you are on the sidelines in a situation, you do not influence events at all, either because you have chosen not to be involved, or because other people have not involved you. □ France no longer wants to be left on the sidelines when critical decisions are taken.
4 VERB [usu passive] If someone or something is sidelined, they are made to seem unimportant and not included in what people are doing. □ [be V -ed] He was under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined.