have a point
verb1
To express a correct or valid idea.
- You have a point. We should limit our budget to only include what is necessary.
- Indeed, when I interviewed Ken Skates, the Welsh Cabinet Member for Transport and North Wales, for my Calling All Stations podcast, he suggested (rightly) that the electrification of 170km (106 miles) of Valleys line ^([sic]) "was no mean feat in less than ten years". Given the stalled electrification of England's railways, notably the Midland Main Line, he has a point.2026 March 18, Christian Wolmar, “Wales sets example with long-term rail strategy”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 42:
- Related terms
- get the point, pointless, point taken, the point, take someone's point, take the point