beg to differ / disagree

/bˈɛɡ tʊ dˈɪfə dˌɪsɐɡɹˈiː/

/bˈɛɡ tʊ dˈɪfɚ dˌɪsɐɡɹˈiː/

[sentence]

[SENTENCE]

to politely express disagreement with what has just been stated

Examples

1. The companies themselves though, beg to differ, Brightmark, founded in 2016, is building a commercial-scale plastics-to-fuel plant in Ashley, Indiana, and aims to process 100,000 tons of plastic by 2021.

2. The Big Tech executives might beg to differ.

3. You might say fairies aren’t real, but fairyflies beg to differ.

4. - I beg to differ.