Language: en
Meaning: (idiomatic,of two persons or other parties)Toaccepteach other'sopinionsandceasearguing; to peacefullyacknowledgethat anagreementwill not be reached.I know we’re never going to agree on the merits of vegetarianism, so let’sagree to disagree, shall we?1931, Cyrus Hall McCormick III,The Century of the Reaper, page29:By 1849, theyagreedamicablyto disagree, andMcCormickbought theOgdenand Jones half of the business for $65,000.1978,Richard Nixon,RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon[1], Grosset & Dunlap,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,→OL,page571:We knew that no agreement concerning Taiwan could be reached at this time. While both sides could agree that Taiwan was a part of China — a position supported by both the Peking and Taiwan governments — we would have to oppose the use of military force by Peking to bring Taiwan under Communist rule.Our lengthy discussions resulted as we expected: we could onlyagree to disagreeand to reflect our differences in the communiqué. Thanks largely to Kissinger's negotiating skill and Chou's common sense, the Chinese finally agreed to sufficiently modified language.
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