to see eye to eye
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3.7
- idiom
- Informal
:
estar de acuerdo
- As with so many young men, Tavian often failed to see eye to eye with his father.
- always see eye to eye
We, we did not see eye to eye on anything.
- We, we did not see eye to eye on anything.
- Him and Spike didn't quite see eye to eye.
- You know, and I think Mark and I really saw eye to eye that this thing could be big.
- And so, you know, one of the things that happened, if you remember your church history is not everybody saw eye to eye on this developing religion.
- Denying someone's reality and gaslighting them is not about not seeing eye to eye, it's emotional abuse.
- And at first we really didn't see eye to eye and didn't get along.
- You know, I've been thinking about how you and I don't always see eye to eye, so I thought I'd make you a little something as a gesture of goodwill.
- So they fired me and I was upset because my manager, I'm not going to mention her name, we didn't see eye to eye for a while.
- How do you engage with individuals who don't see eye to eye with Antifa or have a very violent reaction to the word?
- So I had two partners previously and there were times where they didn't see eye to eye.
- We've got work to do, whether we have seen eye to eye or rarely agreed at all.
- And as a young as as a young kid, you know, we didn't always see eye to eye.
- Just and I, I know that we have not seen eye to eye and I don't want to feel like I'm not.
- So I did and we're a couple drafts of it and we sort of didn't see eye to eye.
- She's like we do not agree normally Trana and I see eye to eye.
Examples
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"You and I may not see eye to eye, but we’re both adults.
Fiction book (2002) -
I really think you two might see eye to eye if you just spent a little more time getting to know each other.
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You know, and I think Mark and I really saw eye to eye that this thing could be big.
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If you two see eye to eye, we'll make a deal.
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Hey, you and I are seeing eye to eye on a whole range of issues this morning.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm glad that we can finally see eye to eye.
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You and me never have quite seen eye to eye about what's right and what's wrong.
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Couples don't always see eye to eye on everything.
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Working efficiently with allies requires seeing eye-to-eye with them on matters of mutual concern.
Blog text (18) -
I'm happy to hear that we see eye to eye on this important decision.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to agree' is metaphorically built from 'see' and the idea of having eyes aligned (a shared viewpoint), so a learner who knows the words could plausibly infer a relation about sharing perspective but not necessarily map it directly to the conventional sense 'agree' without prior exposure. The construction is motivated and has parallels in other languages, making it partially predictable but still idiomatic rather than fully compositional.
Etymology
See eye to eye may come from a simple picture: two people standing face to face so their eyes are at the same level and they look the same way. That's why when people 'see eye to eye' it means 'to agree'.