much to be said

alternative a lot to be said · alternative something to be said

1. Used to assert the defensibility or advisability of what follows.

   There is much to be said for a policy of caution.

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   The British empire had much to be said for it, but it is over – dead, deceased, struck off, no more.

   2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian

   Why not think of oneself as simply thrown together with fellow citizens or conationals in the same sort of random way as a group of people might be thrown together in a life-boat? There is much to be said in favor of such a story.

   1999, Gillian Brock, “The new nationalisms”, in Monist, volume 82, number 3, page 367

   You believe in the blessed prairies, and I have faith in the sayings of my fathers. If both are true, our parting will be final; but if it should prove, that the same meaning is hid under different words, we shall yet stand together, Pawnee, before the face of your Wahcondah, who will then be no other than my God. There is much to be said in favour of both religions, for each seems suited to its own people, and no doubt it was so intended.

   1827, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Prairie; a Tale. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Carey […], →OCLC