Phrase info

on account

Speech parts

1. on account - Conjunction

2. on account - Phrase

Meaning

on account

As something to be reckoned up as part of final payments; on credit.

on account

(colloquial) On account of the fact that; because.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

In the measure that love for the flesh prevails in you, you can never become brave and dauntless, on account of the host of adversaries that constantly surround the object of your love. Isaac the Syrian

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. E. B. White

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. Jawaharlal Nehru

The devil's wiser more on account of his age than on account of being the devil. Ecuadoran Proverb

He who makes a fool of himself on account of a woman is well nigh ruined. Maltese Proverb

It is well to fly low on account of the branches. French Proverb

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