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where someone is coming from
- (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.
reasonable premises to an argument
- “where someone is coming from”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “where one is coming from”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “where someone is coming from”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “where someone is coming from”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “know/see where sb is coming from”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
