beg to differ

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toofferanopposingopinionhumbly.Synonym:disagree1819, Thomas Broughton,The Cure for Pauperism; or, The Ancient Standards of Value Compared with the Artificial Standards Created by the Paper Currency; with a Plan of an Effectual Measure of Finance, London: Printed forT[homas]Cadell & W[illiam]Davies,[…], and J. M. Richardson,[…], by Charles Wood,[…],→OCLC,page27:ThusLord Kingasserted, February 28, 1818, "That the whole of what the noble Secretary of State,Lord Liverpool, had said, amounted to this, that the Sinking Fund was only nominal, and had not paid one shilling of the debt." To which Lord Liverpool replied, "Hebegged to differwith his Lordship, and was of opinion, that the Sinking Fund was real."1912,H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Crisis”, inMarriage, London:Macmillan and Co., Limited[…],→OCLC, book the first (Marjorie Marries), § 8,page183:"Look here, sir, this is all very well," he began, "but why can't I fall in love with your daughter? I'm a Doctor of Science and all that sort of thing. I've a perfectly decent outlook. My father was rather a swell in his science. I'm an entirely decent and respectable person." / "Ibeg to differ," said Mr. Pope. / "But I am." / "Again," said Mr. Pope, with great patience, and a slight forward bowing of the head, "Ibeg to differ."2015,Catherine Mayer, quotingMichael John Elliott, “Introduction”, inCharles: The Heart of a King, London:W. H. Allen,→ISBN; republished London: W. H. Allen,2016,→ISBN,page45:Most of the conversation was taken up with an agonised appraisal of the Prince's [i.e.,Charles, Prince of Wales's] proper role, together with much royal muttering (conventional wisdom in 1985) that Britain had lost its dynamism for which it was once famous. Ibegged to differ, and implored the Prince to consider the new, entrepreneurial, street-cred economy being created at that very moment in the clubs and streets, the fashion houses and TV studios and advertising agencies of Soho and Covent Garden.; (idiomatic)Todiffer(strongly) ininterpretationoropinion.Synonym:disagree1854July 1, “Art II.—(1.)Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay. London: John W. Parker and Son. 1853. (2.)More Worlds than One, the Creed of the Philosopher, and the Hope of the Christian.By SirDavid Brewster, K.H., D.C.L., &c. &c. London: John Murray. 1854.”, inThe British Quarterly Review, volume XX, number XXXIX, London:Jackson & Walford,[…]; and Simpkin, Marshall and Co.,[…],→OCLC,page69: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 hebegs to differfrom them decidedly.1996June, Mark Hansen, “Death’s Door”, in Gary A. Hengstler, editor,ABA Journal: The Lawyer’s Magazine, volume82, Chicago, Ill.:American Bar Association,→ISSN,→OCLC,page64, column 1:Esther Lardent, chief consultant to the ABA's Post Conviction Death Penalty Representation Project, which has helped recruit pro bono lawyers for death row appeals since 1987,begs to differ. Finding a lawyer to represent a death row inmate has never been easy, Lardent says. And finding one now, she says, will be harder than ever.2000,Geoffrey Miller, “Arts of Seduction”, inThe Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature, New York, N.Y.:Doubleday,→ISBN; 1st Anchor Books edition, New York, N.Y.:Anchor Books, April 2001,→ISBN,page270:Fortunately, bowerbirds cannot talk, so we are free to use sexual selection to explain their work, without thembegging to differ.2009June 19,Bob Inglis, “Expressing Support for Iranians who Embrace Democracy[H. Res. 560]”, inCongressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 111th Congress, First Session(United States House of Representatives), volume155, part 12, Washington, D.C.:United States Government Printing Office,→ISSN,→OCLC,page15731, column 1:[...] I saw this morning that the Supreme Leader of Iran said that street challenge is not acceptable. This is challenging democracy after the elections. Well, webeg to differand the people of Iran arebegging to differ. When you can count paper ballots, millions of them, within a couple of hours, something's funny.2018March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven SpielbergFinds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche ofReady Player One”, inThe A.V. Club‎[1], archived fromthe originalon31 May 2018:IfThe Adventures Of TintinandThe BFGsuggested that the director's craftsmanship rarely extends to entirely CGI worlds, this IMAX-scaled spectaclebegs to differ.

Examples:

EN: I beg to differ.
ES: No me lo parece.
ES: No es cierto.
ES: Niego la conclusión, Sr. Conde.
EN: No, I beg to differ with you, sir.
ES: No, no estoy de acuerdo, señor.
EN: I beg to differ, sir, and I can assure you that the knife is definitely the one given to the late lord by the Shogun.
ES: Siento comunicar a mi Señor que el Sr Dokai tiene razón.
EN: -No, I beg to differ.
ES: - No coincido contigo.
EN: Mr. Lemel, I beg to differ.
ES: Sr. Lemel, se lo ruego.
EN: I beg to differ with you, senator.
ES: Yo no he olvidado. Ni mucha gente.
EN: - I beg to differ, madame.
ES: - siento contradecirla, es ésta.
EN: I beg to differ about that.
ES: El asunto puede verse de otra manera.
EN: I beg to differ, Mr. Blount.
ES: Debo discrepar, Sr. Blount.
EN: Despite our respect for the Prosecution, we beg to differ
ES: A pesar de nuestro respeto por la Acusación, sentimos no estar de acuerdo.
EN: No, I beg to differ with you, Your Highness.
ES: No, me permito diferir con Ud, Su Alteza.
EN: I beg to differ, You see, you must turn right before you turn left.
ES: No estoy de acuerdo, como ves, hay que girar a la derecha antes de girar a la izquierda.
EN: - I'm afraid that we beg to differ.
ES: Nada así. Siento pedirle una cosa distinta.
EN: - I beg to differ with Miss Gordon.
ES: - Discrepo con la sta. Gordon.
EN: - I'd beg to differ, Aristide.
ES: - Aristide, podría desmentirte.

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