OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 34052

beg to differ

/ˈbɛɡ tə ˈdɪfə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
no concordar • no estar de acuerdo • permitirle discrepar • permitirse disentir
To offer an opposing opinion humbly.
"Look here, sir, this is all very well," he began, "but why can't I fall in love with your daughter? I'm a Doctor of Science and all that sort of thing. I've a perfectly decent out…
Thus Lord King asserted, February 28, 1818, "That the whole of what the noble Secretary of State, Lord Liverpool, had said, amounted to this, that the Sinking Fund was only nominal…
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