much to be said

• a lot to be said
• something to be said

much to be said (for)

1. Used to assert the defensibility or advisability of what follows.

   There is much to be said for a policy of caution.

   • 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian‎:

     The British empire had much to be said for it, but it is over – dead, deceased, struck off, no more.

   • 1999, Gillian Brock, “The new nationalisms”, in Monist, volume 82, number 3, page 367:

     Why not think of oneself as simply thrown together with fellow citizens or conationals in the same sort of random way as a group of people might be thrown together in a life-boat? There is much to be said in favor of such a story.