according to one's lights

English

Prepositional phrase

according to one's lights

  1. Synonym of by one's lights.
    • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 164:
      "Well, there's her statement of her case, and according to her lights, it's a just one. She's got a slum-bred mind."
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