| Word | weigh something in the balance |
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| Description | carefully ponder or assess the merits and demerits of something. The image is of a pair of old-fashioned scales with two pans in which the positive and negative aspects of something can be set against each other. The expanded phrase carefully ponder or assess the merits and demerits of something. The image is of a pair of old-fashioned scales with two pans in which the positive and negative aspects of something can be set against each |
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