see eye to eye

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,chiefly in the negative)Toagree, especially in everyrespect; toconcur; toget along.1899May,Rudyard Kipling, “The Flag of Their Country”, inStalky & Co., London:Macmillan & Co., published1899,→OCLC,page206:But the friend merely spoke of his friend; and since no two people in the worldsee eye to eye, the picture conveyed to Collinson was inaccurate.1920March –1921February,P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Bomb”, inIndiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.:A. L. Burt Company, publishers[…], published1921,→OCLC,page52:In the course of their professional career they did not often hear their superior make many suggestions with which theysaw eye to eye, but he had certainly, in their opinion, spoken a mouthful now.1962March, “Talking of Trains: The not-so-free hand”, inModern Railways, page147:Plainly, the Government and Dr. Beeching have notseen eye to eye, to say the least, on railway wages.2006March 30, Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, “What's Behind the Ground Zero Stalemate”, inTime:Furthermore, Silverstein and Pataki never completelysaw eye to eyeon the master plan, disagreeing on such issues as the choice of architect.2024July 13, Laura Onita, Eleanor Olcott, “Shein's master of reinvention treads tricky path to IPO”, inFT Weekend, page11:And he enjoys conversations with regulators despite not alwaysseeing eye to eyewith them, according to another person close to him.

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