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After I wrote the above, I went out to mow the lawn and, as there is nothing like a mindless task for clarifying one's thoughts, I now disagree with my own answer (though not enough to down vote it). "To err on the side of" definitely contains the idea of a continuum and my example is an either...or situation. Better answers were from The_English_Teacher, @Steven, and Owen Reynolds. I'd try to come up with a better example, but I finished cutting the grass. Maybe I'll go cut the neighbor's.

CWill
– CWill

2022-05-22 18:27:14 +00:00
Commented May 22, 2022 at 18:27

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