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where someone is coming from

where someone is coming from phrase: the reasonable, but possibly incorrect, motivations or premises to someone's argument.

Phrase

where someone is coming from

  1. (informal) The reasonable, but possibly incorrect, motivations or premises to someone's argument.
    • I don't entirely agree, but I can see where you are coming from.

Questions about where someone is coming from

What does where someone is coming from mean?
Where someone is coming from means the reasonable, but possibly incorrect, motivations or premises to someone's argument.
What part of speech is where someone is coming from?
Where someone is coming from is a phrase.

Words near where someone is coming from in the dictionary

  1. where I come from
  2. where is the lie
  3. where is the toilet
  4. where it counts
  5. where it's at
  6. where someone is coming from
  7. where someone lives
  8. where the puck is going
  9. where the puck is heading
  10. where the shoe pinches
  11. where the sun doesn't shine

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