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Choosing sides

What doe "choosing sides" in the following excerpt mean?

For the first time since I started school, I was looking forward to a party. And I knew that part of the reason I was looking for ward to it was because Julian had not made it public. Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited, Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.
  

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[nq:1]What doe "choosing sides" in the following excerpt mean? For the first time since I started school, I was looking ... [/nq] Picking your friends.

  • [nq:1]What doe "choosing sides" in the following excerpt mean?
  • For the first time since I started school, I was looking ...
  • [/nq] Picking your friends.
  • Anyone not picked as a friend is automatically an enemy at that age.
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[nq:1]What doe "choosing sides" in the following excerpt mean? For the first time since I started school, I was looking ... officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited, Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.[/nq]
Picking your friends. Anyone not picked as a friend is automatically an enemy at that age.
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[nq:1]Picking your friends. Anyone not picked as a friend is automatically an enemy at that age.[/nq]
I guess picking your friends is what choosing sides mean particurally in this context. Will you tell me more general definition of this idiom? Favor part of a group?
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[nq:2]Picking your friends. Anyone not picked as a friend is automatically an enemy at that age.[/nq]
[nq:1]I guess picking your friends is what choosing sides mean particurally in this context. Will you tell me more general definition of this idiom? Favor part of a group?[/nq]
The usual image is the way children choose teams for baseball/softball and other sports. Two leaders take turns n
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[nq:2]Picking your friends. Anyone not picked as a friend is automatically an enemy at that age.[/nq]
[nq:1]I guess picking your friends is what choosing sides mean particurally in this context. Will you tell me more general definition of this idiom? Favor part of a group?[/nq]
There really isn't much more to explain. The use of the word "sides" means there are two opposing teams or viewpo
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[nq:2]I guess picking your friends is what choosing sides mean ... general definition of this idiom? Favor part of a group?[/nq]
[nq:1]The usual image is the way children choose teams for baseball/softball and other sports. Two leaders take turns naming who ... "Then I'll have Lee." This leaves the last-picked feeling very unwanted. I wonder if this custom is followed any more.[/nq]
My und
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[nq:2]I guess picking your friends is what choosing sides mean ... general definition of this idiom? Favor part of a group?[/nq]
[nq:1]The usual image is the way children choose teams for baseball/softball and other sports. Two leaders take turns naming who ... "Then I'll have Lee." This leaves the last-picked feeling very unwanted. I wonder if this custom is followed any more.[/nq]
I saw
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[nq:2]What doe "choosing sides" in the following excerpt mean? For ... invited, Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.[/nq]
[nq:1]Picking your friends. Anyone not picked as a friend is automatically an enemy at that age.[/nq]
Right, of course. But it's probably worth mentioning that the expression refers specifically to choosing teams ("side" commonly = "team") for competitive games
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[nq:1]} }> > }> > Picking your friends. Anyone not picked as a friend is automatically }> > an enemy ... out, even if there was an odd number of players. The last player picked just didn't make that much difference.[/nq]
Your neighborhood was much more democratic than mine. Schoolyard teams were chosen by favoritism and not skill. I wouldn't use "enemy", but the "ins" were ch
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[nq:1]The usual image is the way children choose teams for baseball/softball and other sports. Two leaders take turns naming who ... "Then I'll have Lee." This leaves the last-picked feeling very unwanted. I wonder if this custom is followed any more.[/nq]
The site below makes distinction between" choose sides" and " choose up sides". Will you tell me your idea in regard to my quote?

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