beg to differ
verb/ˈbɛɡ tə ˈdɪfə/UK/ˈbɛɡ tə ˈdɪfɚ/US
Etymology
From beg (“to plead with someone for help”) + to + differ.
Definitions
To offer an opposing opinion humbly.
To differ (strongly) in interpretation or opinion.
- Now the pluralists may say that a place where they run up new houses, and pull down old ones, is by no means disqualified for occupation, but he begs to differ from them decidedly.
- Fortunately, bowerbirds cannot talk, so we are free to use sexual selection to explain their work, without them begging to differ.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for beg to differ. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA