[Luis Gonzalez]

"Your Query of 'err on the side of something' Resulted in 1 Matches"

You consulted a dictionary on an entire phrase?

dic·tion·ar·y Listen: [ dksh-nr ]
n. pl. dic·tion·ar·ies

1. A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
   
2. A book listing the words of a language with translations into another language.
   
3. A book listing words or other linguistic items in a particular category or subject with specialized information about them: a medical dictionary.
   
4. Computer Science a. A list of words stored in machine-readable form for reference, as by spelling-checking software. b. An electronic spelling checker.

A dictionary defines words, not phrases...see, now you can walk away knowing that you learned something new tonight.

No charge.

[A.J.Armitage]

You consulted a dictionary on an entire phrase?

Actually I consulted Google, which lead me to the dictionary, but no matter.

A dictionary defines words, not phrases...see, now you can walk away knowing that you learned something new tonight.

So lemme get this straight. You take the definition's reference to words to positively exclude phrases, therefore making anything including definitions of phrases other than a real dictionary. Slight problem: if you really believe that, the dictionary you just quoted isn't a real dictionary, since it also defines phrases.

Like this. Or this. Or this.

Now dictionary.com got the definition you cited from the American Heritage. I have a copy on my desk. I opened it at random, and on one page I see definitions for: jump bid, jumper cable, jumping bean, jumping jack, jumping mouse, jumping-off place, jump seat, junction box, June beetle, Jung Carl Gustav, jungle fever, jungle fowl, jungle gym, junior collage, junior high school, and junior varsity.

So it seems that by your weird interpretation, the definition you cited is itself from a fake dictionary!

And even aside from that, "not a real dictionary" does not equal "a thesaurus", leaving that egg firmly on your face (this is also an idiom, so don't bother telling me the state of your literal face).

And even aside from that, it's firmly established that you bungled the meaning of "err on the side of _______", and therefor the meaning of Keyes' remarks, leaving the original egg still on your forehead.