Talk:change sides

RFD discussion: October 2020–October 2021

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change sides

No assertion of an idiomatic definition is provided. DTLHS (talk) 23:54, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

• Keep - Dentonius (my politics | talk) 18:34, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

  Struck per our previous discussion. Imetsia (talk) 16:35, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

• Delete unless it proves useful as a translation hub. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:43, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

• Delete. No more than "change" + "sides"; cf. swap sides, switch sides, shift sides. I do support somehow accommodating lists of common or natural phrases/collocations even when these are SoP, but I do not support giving these individual full articles. Mihia (talk) 19:40, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

• Keep. It's in the OED as "begin to support a different side in a war or dispute". We will need to include a definition along those lines. ---> Tooironic (talk) 00:42, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

• After reading what Tooironic said, I say keep as per the lemming principle. Khemehekis (talk) 03:44, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

• Delete. No particular meaning without context. "At 3-2 they smiled at each other as they changed sides." "After they changed sides the sun came out and was right in their eyes" "Italy changed sides as the Allies penetrated deeper into Europe." "The other team was short players so Chris and Sam graciously changed sides." Facts707 (talk) 14:12, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Weak keep. Imetsia (talk) 16:35, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

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• Delete along the same lines as Mihia. The phrase is a common collate, which generally deserve some sort of treatment (maybe akin to Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take?), but it is still equal to the sum of its parts. The phrase switch sides seems to be the most natural synonym to me. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 16:34, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Delete. One dictionary does not a lemming make. DAVilla 08:23, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

It also appears to be in MacMillan and in Longman. bd2412 T 02:50, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

• Keep per additional lemmings. bd2412 T 02:50, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Delete as SOP. - excarnateSojourner (talk|contrib) 01:08, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Keep per the lemming principle or Convert to translation hub. AG202 (talk) 21:38, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

Closing as no consensus. DAVilla 09:57, 29 October 2021 (UTC)