in the second place

in the second place
in the second place
secondly; in addition. (Usually said after one has said in the first place.) •

In the first place, you don't have enough money to buy one. In the second place, you don't need one.

In the first place, I don't have the time. In the second place, I'm not interested.

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See: IN THE --- PLACE.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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