put something on one side—
1. delay consideration of or postpone dealing with smth.:
- When we first used it, we weren’t sure how it would work out, so we only put it on one side.
2. set smth. aside for some future purpose:
- Anything I have left over from my week’s wages I usually put on one side, for emergencies.
take someone on one side—take a person aside to speak to him in confidence:
- I was taken on one side by a man I knew vaguely and told to get out of town.